In the morning paper yesterday I read a letter from a male who doesn’t like President Donald Trump but does like the fact that Trump recently threatened all the adults and children who live in North Korean and Iran with nuclear annihilation.
In history we can study attempts to annihilate entire populations. Attila the Hun used to surround a city state, then give the city folk the choice of surrender or annihilation. Some chose to fight on. In Texas people remember the Alamo. Nazi Germany’s Holocaust was more recent. What Trump and his follower don’t grasp is that, for unclear reasons, genocidal annihilators are often thought of as waste matter or turds. Annihilation can backfire—it’s bad for multinational businesses. In the end there’s not much about annihilation policy that creates a positive reaction at the UN.
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