Posted on 02/26/2019 3:47:30 PM PST by SleeperCatcher
Full headline: Media and Dems fret Trump will ‘blow’ North Korea negotiations but he’s already accomplished more than his predecessors
As POTUS Donald Trump departed for Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday to attend his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the #NeverTrump mainstream media (MSM) and congressional Democrats were going to incredible lengths to pour cold water on his mission.
CNN‘s national security analyst John Kirby, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, wondered if the trip was a serious effort to denuclearize North Korea and bring lasting peace to the world’s most heavily fortified peninsula or just an “ego trip” for the president:
Given the challenges Trump faces, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the broader historical context of presidential summits and question their value. Is meeting with Kim at this stage even worth the time and effort? What approach to diplomacy does this summit embody? Can Trump succeed on the strength of his personality alone?
Kirby interviewed Dr. David Reynolds, a British historian and professor at Cambridge University who has studied at Ivy League schools and has written and taught extensively on international diplomacy. One question Kirby asked set the tone:
Donald Trump likes to fashion himself as a deal-maker and seems enamored by the personal and laudatory communication with Kim. Could this be a case where personality really can overcome our historic challenges with North Korea and the lack of any real progress made by lower-level staff? In other words, is this the kind of problem that can only be solved by the leaders themselves?
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Gee, first time the Democrats have worried about the President and “blow,” either noun or verb.
Same hand-wringing from the same cast of characters just prior to his first summit with Kim Jong-un.
They just dust off the old talking-points memos.
I seem to remember after EVERY NORK ‘summit’ with Albright, Kerry, Hillary!, et al, Kimmy or his Dad launched a few Nukes in the air shortly thereafter!
Haven’t seen that happen with President Trump, have we?
*SNORT*
Lately it’s always seems like a Navy guy dissing the President. I think your ship has sailed.
Call me when he gives them nuclear plants and fuel in exchange for a promise.
The Dems and the media are worried Trump will be successful.
They’ve done so well the last 60 years, wouldn’t want Trump to screw it up.
Blow as in trading terrorist leaders for a deserter?
-PJ
I had on NBC News in the background and the gist of it was, “Trump is so stupid, will he give too much away in a deal??”
Unreal.
Trump has already done better than anyone else with NK.
Shaddup, media.
More and more it appears that anyone above the level of O-6 is a hard left globalist. And I'm not sure about the O-6s.
No such skepticism when Obama was flying pallets full of untraceable cash to Iran in return for non-binding promises that Iran said they wouldn't keep.
CNN‘s national security analyst John Kirby
Kirby is an Obama schlong slurper. How he was an Admiral is mind boggling.
All the do nothings complaining about the one doing something
Actually worried he will succeed and make the Emaculated One look bad. LIke he got a Nobel for...nothing.
Read your description of the admiral. You answered the question on how he got the rank.
It’s almost too much for a person to take it anymore.
Hah! You are so far right, your almost left! :-)
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