Posted on 08/11/2017 8:00:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This is what we dreaded. Some international crisis was bound to flare up, and President Trump would make it worse. Now we can only hope that the mature adults surrounding him are able to cool things down.
Trump probably thought it was oh-so-clever to answer North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s nuclear provocations with a taste of the dictator’s own apocalyptic language, threatening “fire and fury like the world has never seen.” It sounded like a playground taunt, reflecting the president’s emotional immaturity.
Dealing with this crisis will require patience and realism, both of which Trump totally lacks.
There is no quick solution. If there were, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or Barack Obama would have implemented it long ago.
Trump once said he would be willing to meet with Kim. If the president can be kept from making further threats and the present crisis allowed to subside, perhaps we can eventually offer direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang — something Kim dearly wants — with the subject being a verifiable freeze on the North Korean nuclear program. After a freeze is in place for a while, it might be possible to negotiate reductions.
As I said, we need to be patient and realistic. Someone please distract the president with a shiny object for the next few years.
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Patience and realism? In journalism?
I guess some are so stupid in the media..
They actually expect raises.
This idiot should be paid not to write..
if that’s what you call it.
Yep. The good ol’ eGOP. Screwed us and we knew it when it happened.
Somebody actually signs this guys paycheck.
They obviously have never done a cost / benefit analysis.
I’m too much of a gamer... saw it and thought, wow 3000 frames per second is a bit of overkill.
The quick solution was to finish what we started in the 1950’s.
Howie Carr just played an old interview with Tim Russert. Trump described today’s Nork situation perfectly.
Playground taunts will probably work better than kissing Norm butt as Clinton, Bush and Obuttmunch did for 20+ years.
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