Posted on 08/09/2017 7:51:49 AM PDT by pgkdan
The Smart Set agrees that once again, President Trump has said something ridiculous, amateurish, and downright embarrassing. His warning to North Korea, using rhetoric that resembles the hyperbole that regime long has favored, is something they would never do (and just look at how successful they have been preventing North Korea from getting nukes).
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In choosing words that reflect North Korea's past rhetoric, President Trump may be speaking directly to Kim Jong-un and saying, in effect: "We know that you don't have the capacity to pull off an attack that would utterly destroy us in a 'sea of fire' and the other terms you have used. And you know that we do have the power to destroy you, maybe with a cruise missile or MOAB on your bunker, or maybe take out all of Pyongyang, where the regime's insiders all are clustered. Or we could take out the entire country, if we are really annoyed, or if you inflict damage on Guam, Seoul, or any place we care about (everywhere but your territory). We have power [Trump added this, seemingly extemporaneously], and you do not."
North Korea's people, as well as its leadership, now understand – as they never did before – that their country is truly backward. Until cell phones and video players were parachuted into the country in vast numbers and software supplied of everything from soap operas to documentaries to pictures of traffic jams, the regime could get by telling its subjects they were the lucky ones, that everyone else had it much worse. Now they all know that it is a lie. The information age and economical South Korean-manufactured consumer electronics have destroyed the information wall around Kim's domain.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The deliberateness with which President Trump spoke those words suggests that it was important to get them exactly correct, so they would be recognized for some other meaning than the obvious. The idea of a coup by the generals who control the means by which Kim's power is enforced surely has been on the minds of the President Trump's team. I have no idea if there has been any progress, and neither does anyone else who would write or speak on the subject.
This is the last paragraph from the article. I wondered about this as I watched the video of the President making these remarks. He was very deliberate in the words he used.
Trump is trolling little fat boy, using a lexicon that fat boy understands.
Where will the Young Un get his Free Stuff now ?
Is it coincidence that NK released the Korean-Canadian pastor they held as prisoner?
“President Trump has said something ridiculous, amateurish, and downright embarrassing”
Yeah, he does do that, but talking smack at NK commies is not so much, not with the behavior they’ve exhibited.
“Evil empire”....ooooo, I’m scared bombs will rain on me!
You don’t seem to be paying attention.
If Hillary had won, a shipload of free stuff would be on its way. I don’t think President Trump will be sending anything unless it via our military.
Anything that “baffles and outrages foreign policy establishment and its toadies” is music to my ears. Globalists despise the idea of a free and independent United States of America, so whatever pleases them offends me. MAGA.
He may soon be on the receiving end of a bunch of free MOABs. Who knows?
I did not see that. Was the pastor comatose?
Did Trudeau go over and service fat boy’s knob and pay him $10mm with a formal apology?
Truman said the same thing, to accolades.
The level of arrogance is incredible. To have screwed up a policy for the last 25 years and then tell someone who is actually doing things differently that he’s making a mess of things is bold and laughable all at once.
The Smart Set (?) has played an acitve role in bringing us to this crossroads. So they can shut the hell up!
Those in the media & their kindred spirits in academia & the political bureaucracy, endanger all of us, when they seek to undermine the President in this hyper critical situation. Anyone who does not get that is not part of a “smart set.” They are something very different.
These "foreign policy establishment" morons (like Schumer and McCain) would rather continue with the line of rhetoric that has proven useless and led us to the current situation.
Foreign policy wonks are nothing but stuffed shirts with so much hot air they could melt both polar ice caps. They think they’re so damn important, but no serious world leader gives any international affairs “expert” the time of day nor should they.
Kinda like ‘Shock and Awe’ ?
That would be the same establishment that allowed NK to nuke up.
I think it was a message delivered, since the little fat guy has been saber rattling for a long time. It probably involves things going on behind the scenes that are secret and probably more serious than we know. And I think the message changed some things, despite the traitorous mouthings by McCain.
The “foreign policy establishment” hate America and American Citizens. The he** with these loser quislings .
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