Thanks, John, you’re a big help.
He is right. There might have been some slight chance were it not for what Obama and Hillary pulled with Qaddafi. Freakshow dictator that he was, he did give up the Libyan WMD program. Instead of building on that breakthrough, the powers that be decided that just made him vulnerable enough to remove him with little political risk to themselves because he was neutered.
The same thing will happen to us if we give any ground on the 2nd amendment.
You can bet Rocketman took note of Libya and how giving up WMD is the same thing as giving up power and being humiliated and killed by mobs. He’s not going to be stupid enough to give them up. Even if he believed Trump is acting in good faith he has a very recent example proving there is no guarantee the next president will act in good faith.
And, looking at how easily Americans voted in people openly hostile to their own country, and how Iran has been thumbing its nose at us for over 30 years with no end in sight, and how Russia is sitting in the Crimea, and how Assad is still secure, while the guy who defeated Saddam is demonized universally, even by this President,... Rocketman has no reason to believe he is in danger and every reason to wait Trump out and see if more communists will be elected to office here, and even assist the communists here. North Korea was behind the antiwar protests in the US all along ; the norks supported ANSWER even before 9/11 when it went by another name in the wake of the Gore War in Florida, and there were even US congress critters signed up with ANSWER . The Norks were on the winning side in the Iraq war, having waited until Obama handed it over to Iran. Yes, there’s been foreign meddling in our elections- and the Norks have fared very well in it with their joint propaganda war with Iran and Russia. Rocketman has no reason to offer anything other than symbolic gestures in the hope of getting some sanctions relief or aid or just to wait out this president until a more conciliatory one comes along.
The most Trump is going to get is talk. The only good thing is, Trump’s not going to pull a Clinton or Obama and give him pallets of cash.