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Trump should make clear to North Korea that the Libya model is indeed on the table
Fox News ^ | May 25, 2018 | Marc Thiessen, The Washington Post

Posted on 05/25/2018 11:39:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: TigersEye
It puts the ball in Kim's court to mention Obama/Clinton actions in Libya.
It keeps Kim at the table engaged and puts another bullet in Obamas so called legacy.
Trump has said a few things that did not seem prudent in the present but panned out better later on.
I’m holding onto a positive reason for Trump to throw this out there.
41 posted on 05/25/2018 3:38:45 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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I gather this has been presented in an unclear way (perhaps not unclear to Pyongyang) because the “Libya model” prior to about 2010 was good, the Libya model after 2011 was mega-bad and a blot on American foreign policy thanks to the Blotter in Chief.

Bolton needs to clarify this theme so people don’t get the wrong idea. Co-operate and prosper, go against and lose, but then Obama figured co-operate and be destroyed would be a dandy new policy. How anyone could think he was the smartest guy in the room after that idiocy is beyond anything I can imagine. I wouldn’t even totally say guy.


42 posted on 05/25/2018 3:45:08 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Look for England to do well at the World Cup until it starts)
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To: right way right

I understand that. You find a bigger supporter of Pres. Trump,
especially when it comes to his negotiating skills.

I don’t like using examples of American deceit and treachery as leveraging tools though.
I won’t be changing my mind about that.


43 posted on 05/25/2018 3:56:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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won’t find

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44 posted on 05/25/2018 4:00:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In exile in China, Kim would lose North Korea as his personal recruitment pool. Hmmmm . . . it occurs to me . . . perhaps Stormy Daniels could be offered to Kim in compensation.


45 posted on 05/25/2018 4:33:20 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rome2000

Libya and Khadaffi were not betrayed. Khadaffi gave up his nuclear weapons program as part of a complex deal with the US and Europe, but the deal did not include a security guarantee against internal insurrection. When that came, it was precipitated not by Western intrigue or manipulation but by decades of Khadaffi’s grievous tyranny and misrule. Weird, drug-addled, and delusional, Khadaffi rejected US, European, and Arab offers and pleas to take up a secure exile. With the insurrection becoming a civil war, the West finally intervened in hope of bringing the conflict to a close and averting Libya’s decay into armed tribalism and radical Islamism.


46 posted on 05/25/2018 4:58:21 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I believe he already made it clear that the Libya model is on the table - he let Bolton make the implied threat then he made the statement that he would allow Kim to stay in power if he complied....he pretty much said he has the power to do it either way and pushed the timer to make it Kim’s move....tick-tock...tick-tock...


47 posted on 05/26/2018 3:10:55 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrite<i> Yet anoths who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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Nonsense, the insurrection was instigated by Jarett the Iranian and Susan Rice and Samantha Power and Hillary Clinton, who unleashed the U.S. military against Khaddafi forces that were defeating the Islamic terrorists that the CIA was backing to overthrow him.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/22/libya-and-the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention/

https://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Gaddafi-sought-Israeli-support-amid-Libyan-uprising-451079

BETRAYED BIG TIME


48 posted on 05/26/2018 7:31:15 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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