Posted on 06/14/2018 8:55:15 AM PDT by DCBryan1
The photos from the Singapore summit were meant to impress, but the substance was thin indeed — for a vague pledge to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula our president gave up U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises in a surprise move that whacked both South Korea and Japan.
Maybe it will all work out. But to understand what President Donald Trump is really after, let me put this into perspective.
Trump is a businessman, so let's think of him as a new CEO and his supporters as the shareholders. When new CEOs come in they work hard to impress shareholders. They sometimes use the company's good credit rating to borrow money, even for such things as share buybacks just to boost the stock. Or they may propose to sell assets, to get more cash on the balance sheet.
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Clark is nothing but a partisan, political general whose opinions on war and military matters have little value.
During the Balkans War in the 1990’s, when Bill Clinton was president, Weasley Clark wanted a British general to order his troops to attack Russian military personnel at a Russian air base.
To his credit, the British general told Weasley Clark, “Sir, I’m not going to start World War III FOR YOU!
A friend who was in his class at West Point, and knew him then, told me that Wesley Clark has always been a self-serving, politicking, empty suit.
Good point. I did not remember that.
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The same guy that had the US Air Force straife the hay wagons full of Christians escaping Albania!
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