No, they wanted a Jacksonian hawkishness, one that promised to rain destruction on our enemies without the mess of nation building.
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At best, America may have a few years before North Korea can rain destruction on its cities, as it so often threatens.
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A military option, meanwhile, is unthinkable given that North Korean rockets could rain destruction on Seoul -- not to mention the U.S. garrison of nearly 30,000 U.S troops -- within a few minutes notice.
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Oil prices at $20 a barrel threaten to rain destruction on an industry that has donated $1.8 million to Trump's reelection campaign and employs hundreds of thousands of people in states key to any hope to beat his eventual Democratic rival for the presidency.
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Oil prices at $20 a barrel threaten to rain destruction on an industry that has donated $1.8 million to Trump's re-election campaign and employs hundreds of thousands of people in states key to any hope to beat his eventual Democratic rival for the presidency.
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And it won't until its present government collapses and large numbers of North Koreans pour across the 880-mile border that the two nations share, or nuclear war breaks out, threatening to rain destruction on the millions of Chinese clustered in major cities within a 100-mile nuclear blast radius around Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
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In Judaism, one common view of Lot's wife turning to salt was as punishment for disobeying the angels' warning. By looking back at the "evil cities," she betrayed her secret longing for that way of life. She was deemed unworthy to be saved and thus was turned to a pillar of salt. Another view in the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 19:26, is that when Lot's wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of salt upon the "sight of God," who was descending down to rain destruction upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Faced with no other way of stopping Krishna, the British government agrees. All attacks on Krishna fail, as he is far too powerful for any of the other superbeings to pose a threat to him. Perun and Maitreya are easily killed, and Malak is catapulted into space, where his force field shatters the Moon, causing lunar fragments to rain destruction upon the Earth. With his enemies defeated, Krishna begins the process of rebuilding India, creating structures capable of cleaning up the devastated environment and housing its surviving population.
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From there she proceeded to the Palau Islands to guard fast carriers giving direct support to the landing troops there until 9 October. After replenishment at Manus, Admiralty Islands, Patterson made a high-speed run with attack carriers to blast enemy defenses on Okinawa and the entire Kerama Retto chain. From there the fast carrier task forces approached the Philippines to rain destruction on enemy air installations in Northern Luzon, thence proceeded to the coast of Formosa for air strikes launched 12 October. That evening and through the following day, Patterson helped fight off and destroy enemy aerial raiders that approached her carrier task group.
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The next day, she extended her target list to include railroad marshalling yards, tearing up sections of track and blasting rolling stock. Over the next few days, Worcester and the ships in company with her proceeded to rain destruction on targets of opportunity near Wonsan—targets that ranged from railroad marshalling yards to rolling stock and adjacent warehouse areas. Also, on 16 October, Worcester, Helena, and accompanying destroyers fired at unidentified radar contacts—"blips" on the radar screens that approached from the northward. They (the contacts) were probably two flocks of geese. After returning to Sasebo, Worcester returned briefly to Wonsan to transfer mail, passengers, and her helicopter unit to Rochester on 21 October, before she sailed from Wonsan at 1723 on that day, in company with Helena and screened by and .
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2 Some theorists, especially in Britain, considered that aircraft would become the dominant military arm in the future. Buckley (1999), p.3 They imagined that a future war would be won entirely by the destruction of the enemy's military and industrial capability from the air.Boyne (2003), p.138,139,149 The Italian general Giulio Douhet, author of The Command of the Air, was a seminal theorist of this school, which has been associated with Stanley Baldwin's statement that "the bomber will always get through"; that is, regardless of air defences, sufficient raiders will survive to rain destruction on the enemy's cities.Buckley (1999), p.14,75 This led to what would later be called a strategy of deterrence and a "bomber gap", as nations measured air force power by number of bombers.Buckley (1999), p.111Note, "bomber gap" is not mentioned in Buckley p.111 Others, such as General Billy Mitchell in the United States, saw the potential of air power to augment the striking power of naval surface fleets.Buckley (1999), p.
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