[Garth Tater]

Yes, but President Trump said " ‘But you want to make a great deal? Solve the problem in North Korea.’ That’s worth having deficits. And that’s worth having not as good a trade deal as I would normally be able to make." which means we are giving up something we were promised (better trade deal with China) for something we don't owe.

If this is our mutual problem then nothing should have to be paid for China's help. They owe that help (without payment) as a responsible player on the world stage. And when you come right down to it they should be doing more than anyone else to solve this problem. First because they are the original cause of the problem. We didn't stop at the DMZ because North Korea stopped us. We stopped because China stopped us there. And second, this is their problem because they have been using North Korea ever since the Korean War as their little dog on a leash. Good for a distraction and maybe even a little ankle nipping now and then. But now the the fat boy's nukes are actually exploding and his ballistic missiles are not exploding on the launch pad that little yapping chihuahua is on the verge of turning into a badass Rotweiler. And the ones that are going to get mauled first are China and South Korea. They are the ones that should be paying the price for this deal. Not us.

[LS]

Perhaps, but there is the reality that Americans will have to come to grips with: when you deal with a quasi totalitarian country that doesn’t care about its citizens, then you are limited. Yes, they MAY have a stronger interest there, but what’s in it for them may be far, far less than what’s in it for us.

We might, for example, be able to crush Mexico like an insect for something they did, but for the Chinese to come to Baja and do it in our back yard would be much harder. Likewise, when you run on “no foreign wars,” yet the likelihood that this NORK nut wants a war means you might have to violate that, then you have to decide which is more important, a relatively better/worse trade deal or another foreign involvement.

George Washington and John Adams paid tribute to the Barbary Pirates because we didn’t have a big enough navy to challenge them and even when we did, we just had other priorities. For the time being, it was worth the price.

The price however always changes, and if the NORKs are put away, China knows that they cannot go back to the way they were.

But it’s easy to say “We want to crush the NORKS, yet have no boots on the ground, yet also get everything we wanted from China.” Won’t happen.

[Lil Flower]

I think you summed that up as well as anyone. Agreed.

I’m tired of our boys being buried on foreign soil, and the Korean Peninsula is one of them. Let the Asian’s deal with their part of the world, especially when they’ve caused their own problems.