Posted on 06/17/2018 8:40:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
By any reasonable account, the historic meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, resulting in an agreement pledging to work toward a stable and enduring peace (over six decades after the Korean armistice was signed at Panmunjom) was an incredible achievement. In fact, had Obama or Clinton achieved as much, we would expect a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue.
North Korea has agreed to completely denuclearize and has begun the process, according to reports of satellite imagery , and has agreed to return the remains of U.S. military who perished in North Korea.
China, long rightfully considered the muscle behind North Korea, seems to endorse the move, indicating that the summit creates “new history: and urging full denuclearization.”
Of course, given the past agreements with North Korea where we delivered on our promises and they did not, there’s always room for Reagan’s “trust but verify” admonition, and yet there is every reason to believe this president gets that, and is not simply bribing Kim for yet another repeat performance of no tit for tat, relying on a supine press to ignore deals that really weren’t.
In fact, the usual press fluffers which hailed Obama’s deals with Cuba and Iran, to name two recent Democratic foreign policy disasters, were bilious about it.
Ed Driscoll at Instapundit scrolled through NewsBusters for a decent example of the media backflips:
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF…oh, sod it, it’s The View:
● Shot: The View Bashes Trump for Meeting Kim Jong-un: Went ‘Too Far!’
-- NewsBusters, today.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I actually learned the version as a young child that included the “They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree!” refrain.
Now every Southron on the board will come unglued!
I hate your closed-mindedness.
Turning in.
This Thread starts out discussing the historic things happening in North Korea and ends up with dueling opinions about the difference between Vintage and Vineyard.
Amazing...
Turning into what, exactly?
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