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NYT: "Trump’s Harsh Language on North Korea Has Little Precedent, Experts Say."

"Little Precedent" ≠ no precedent, and, in fact, the "little precedent" is — in the historical scheme, very big.

First, there was President Harry S. Truman, in 1945, demanding Japanese surrender or “they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.”

Second, there was Bill Clinton, in 1993:

... during a speech in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea that if Pyongyang ever used nuclear weapons, “it would be the end of their country.”

Victor Cha (of the Center for Strategic and International Studies) said “I take Trump’s statement in the same spirit” as Bill Clintons. It's “a message of deterrence, which is important now to avoid any miscalculation.”

There are 2 other experts quoted in the article. One is Michael Beschloss who wonders if Trump "was impulsive." To be impulsive in making a statement like that would (of course) "be very much out of the history of the presidency on matters like this.... You don’t have presidents blurting out things when lives are at stake, and if that is what it was, it would be scary."

Let's do a quick poll. Remember, what Trump said was: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state and as I said they will be met with fire and fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."

I know this will skew the poll — my polls do not even purport to be scientific — but my opinion is influenced by the phrase "fire and fury." There's alliteration, like Truman's "rain of ruin," and the phrase after the alliterative phrase is almost the same as Truman's: "like the world has never seen" and "the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Trump then repeats himself with a bit of variation. He says "the likes of which this world has never seen before," which gets closer to Truman. And he adds the non-alliterative "power" to "fire and fury," which sounds like an ad lib to me because of the inclusion of the weak introductory word "frankly."

Here's the poll:

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