President Trump speak during di 81st session of di United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters for New York City on Sept. 22.
Di world take note when President Trump tell di United Nations General Assembly dis week say he ask himself whether to make a deal with Iran – or, ‘Do I annihilate di Islamic Republic… Do I drive dem into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?’
Those words seem especially forbidding from a leader who can command armies to march and missiles to fly.
Regarding di Sept. 23 front-page article ‘At U.N., Trump rattles saber’: President Donald Trump tell world leaders on Tuesday, ‘I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets dem rebuild and create a far greater country than e ever was before? Or do I annihilate di Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving dem a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?’
On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman tell di world say di United States don drop di first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. It instantly kill an estimated 70,000 people. Some 40,000 more die days later for Nagasaki, and tens of thousands more from radiation illnesses in di days, weeks, months and years thereafter.
For im speech wey announce di nuclear attack on Hiroshima, President Truman call am ‘a harnessing of di basic power of di universe,’ and add cautions about ‘protecting di world from di danger of sudden destruction.’
Nuclear weapons never used in war since. And Truman successors dey pointedly measured when dem talk about dem. As President Ronald Reagan put am, ‘a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.’
When President John F. Kennedy order US ships to blockade Cuba to prevent di Soviet Union from installing nuclear missiles in 1962, he tell Americans, ‘We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk di costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even di fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth.’
In 1974, President Gerald Ford tell di U.N. General Assembly, ‘A very stark reality has tempered America’s actions for decades and must now temper di actions of all nations. Prevention of full-scale warfare in di nuclear age has become everybody’s responsibility. Today’s regional conflict must not become tomorrow’s world disaster.’
And in 2017, President Obama visit di Peace Park wey now stand for Hiroshima and say, ‘Among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have di courage to escape di logic of fear and pursue a world without dem.’
All strong words from presidents sworn to protect di United States. So strong and measured, dem might have felt it wasn’t necessary to add threats of annihilation, and ‘no chance of survival…’
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