Tillerson, Mattis rebuff Bannon claim of no 'military solution' for North Korea

Fox Mews ^ | August 17, 2017

[aquila48]

Anybody in charge at the White House?

[aquila48]

“Why would Bannon deliberately call a liberal journalist? That one confuses me.”

The last guy to do that was Scaramucci.

[mrsmith]

It all makes sense if Trump approved.
If he didn’t Bannon will quickly be gone.
I doubt the latter.

BTW, your sentences all have superfluous spaces between them which is disconcerting.

[bigbob]

strategy, man...

[TigerLikesRooster]

He just threw a bomb at his opponent’s plan. What matters is what will follow. Would it just lead to the firing of Bannon? Or redoubling economic pressure on China? Or taking more overt steps for possible military action to N. Korea? Since he undermined the possibility of military action, they may have to deal with this problem first. This will definitely embolden N. Korea, making any deal (whatever it is) more difficult. They have to redouble their preparation for military action if they want to keep it as a viable option.

The prospect of negotiated settlement with N. Korea would become dim leaving the administration with two options: either they go after N. Korea harder or China. Apparently Bannon wants the latter.

[dynoman]

“I don’t know why Bannon said that “

It’s for show. Enjoy the entertainment.

[dynoman]

see post 45

[dynoman]

whoops post 46.

[Olog-hai]

I can understand that. Still and all, I wouldn’t say a word to such repugnant people as Kuttner.

[EarlyBird]

I hope you are right, I really do.

[EarlyBird]

Sorry, I’m used to texting my foreign girlfriends.

They get frustrated when they see big blocks of English words.

Otherwise, it seems that you and I agree.

[familyop]

Yes. Bannon should keep his inner little girl locked up. He did exaggerate with his imagined casualties and did get a little overly dramatic. He should continue focusing on the drama of convincing political speech and public affairs: his specialty.

Our combined forces have the training, discipline, strategy and equipment to stop an initial North Korean artillery and infantry attack very quickly. It would be bad but not nearly as bad on the side of the South as Bannon claimed. Warfare for us is different from what it was in the 1950s. Our heavier weapons are very accurate and efficient.

I sincerely hope that President Moon’s diplomats can convince the North to make peace and dispose of nukes. If not, though, we have no better choice than to do our best!

[TigerLikesRooster]

President Moon’s diplomats can convince the North

Unfortunately, this is not going to happen. Their leverage with N. Korea is zero. Because, even when there is one, they won't use it.

[FrdmLvr]

If I’m driving, I notice I tend to listen to Andrew Wilcow more and more. I’ll flip back to Limbaugh and he is still waxing on the same point he had been on 20 min ago. Then at the end of the show he laments how he didn’t get everything in he wanted to cover.

[huldah1776]

I just read the other day that Christianity and Buddhism are spreading in NK because the people don’t trust Kim. He has begun a big purge but the leak could have been to let the US know that there are those in NK who are not in step with their leader.

[WVMnteer]

My question is, “Is everyone on blow?”

One maniac calling a liberal reporter and burying everyone is weird.

Two of them doing it within a month of each other is a trend.

[mrsmith]

Well, I was half right- just the wrong half!

Allegedly this is all to plan to give Trump a conservative media voice.
We’ll see soon. Bannon is already back at Breitbart. Should be fun.

[EarlyBird]

Never a dull moment! I hope that’s correct about the conservative media voice.

I heard that McMaster gave Trump a report that fingered Bannon for many of the WH leaks.

[EarlyBird]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-speaks-after-white-house-departure-im-going-to-war-for-trump/