Posted on 04/17/2017 7:22:03 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
What exactly would amount to an unacceptable provocation?
Help me out here. I thought the whole reason we were sending a strike force to the Korean Peninsula was the possibility that Bowl Cut Jr. was going to launch or otherwise attempt to test a missile - and that either the Chinese needed to stop him from doing that, or we would.
“Day of the Sun” came and went, and it looked like the Norks had backed down, but then early Sunday the attempted to launch the missile after all. That . . . did not go well:
“I now believe Kushner and Pence were couriers.”
Tillerson went to the Soviet Union. Mattis is visiting Egypt and other countries in the Middle East. I think there is something to what you said.
Kushner went with Pence? That sucks big time. We have an elected vice president and a confirmed Secretary of State. What do we need Kushner for?
They went to different places. Maybe read the news.
U.S. apparently unconcerned...etc...etc...
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Like the pundits say, sometimes what isn’t said has a lot more meaning than what is said.
The fact that we are reportedly (allegedly)’unconcerned’ has my cynicism keyed up to the point that we not only stopped it, but screwed them back a few decades.
Somewhat like my stance on the WMDs in Iraq...
IF BUSH/CHENEY really knew there were no WMDs in Iraq, we would have ‘found’ some.
Not this. What I have feared is a NK missile failure that lands in Japan, especially in a civilized area, or practically anywhere in South Korea. A landing in China would be most unfortunate, and they might even manage one in Russia - Vladivostok isn't that far away. These, I think, would be unacceptable provocations.
A related question is what response will be considered "acceptable" by the parties concerned. I should think regime change would be the minimum. And the last time I recall such considerations in public was with regard to one Saddam Hussein.
The point is Kushner should not be involved at all in foreign policy, especially when the President has top-level experienced people like the VP, SecState, SecDef and others duly elected and/or sworn in. Having the President’s dorky son in law intruding and looking over the shoulders of such top people is not a good thing at all.
Apparently the President doesn’t agree with you.
Obviously. Me and others who are uncomfortable with the wide ranging “portfolio” the President has assigned to his son in law. I am crazy about President Trump. My family and I have been big supporters from the beginning. But that does not mean I must never have a disagreement with him. He made a promise during the campaign that his adult kids and spouses would stay in New York and not be involved with running the government. He broke that important promise. Anti nepotism practices exist for solid reasons.
That’s not despotism. They didn’t take a job away from anyone. And he never said his children would not be involved.
whoops....nepotism not despotism
(1) I know you meant nepotism, which is defined as the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs. (2) Nepotism is against the law in many circumstances, and against best practices in most corporations. (3) As a candidate, Trump most definitely did promise several times that his adult children would not be involved in running the government. A little research on your part would confirm this. He has broken that promise. (4) It's all well and good to be supportive of someone we've voted for, but it's not good to follow them blindly and to not hold them accountable when they are not doing what we expected of them.
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