Response To Trump’s Fiery Rhetoric at the United Nations: A Few Smirks, a Ton of Indifference
What the world noticed about Trump’s childish threats against North Korea and Iran at the UN today was that the stock market didn’t even blink when he made this speech, as insane as it was. Nobody takes him seriously. Anything that comes out of his self-interested, neurotic, lying mouth is immediately discounted with a yawn. Same BS, different day. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Maybe this is the best we can hope for.
“The Iran agreement an embarrassment to the US.” He doesn’t know that it was unanimously ratified by the UN Security Council?
The world used to consider this buffoon’s remarks as if they carried weight. Now, it’s nap time.
Craig,
The US president is struggling with a problem that vexed and and ultimately proved too much for the more gentlemanly leaders in the 1930’s. (well, 1940’s for the US).
The problem with North Korea has existred since the 1953 ceasefire.
Over the decades this rogue ‘infant terrible’ of the PRC, has committed a lengthy series of provocations, crimes, act of aggression against it’s neighbors. (although more cautious during the Reagan years)
The crimes of the regime escalated rapidly during the Clinton Administration and the growth of it’s powerful protector, the PRC.
Obama tried his best, but the North smelled the weakness of an irresolute president trying to buy peace at any price. Like the British PM Neville Chamberlain in 1937-39, Obama tried appeasing a growing wolverine.
The UN is powerless,sanction don’t work with fanatics. Until the election of Trump, US policy has been irresolute and weak, preferring symbolism over reality.
The Europeans (with the exception of Boris Johnson) don’t care, and are far more interested in trade with the PRC and Russia.
These are the same excuses that allowed Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin to grow so dangerously powerful.
Reading back over the outpourings of leftist intellectuals, isolationists and appeasement politicians of the 30’s and early fifties, it’s amazing to see how Winston Churchill was depicted before the War in much the same terms as President Trump.
If anything, Churchill was reviled far more than President Trump, in the mid thirties, his bellicose rumblings and warnings, were mocked and condemned.
The US President’s policy toward Korea is laughed at only by the useless chattering classes, appeasers who would wait until the North Korean regime is fully armed with weapons too terrible to contemplate.
Then having let this occur, the appeasers can heave the sigh of of relief every moral coward feels when able to lie to themselves that it’s now too late to do anything, and the is no option but to accept accommodating tyranny.
Thank God for the courage and determination of the people of South Korea. If it comes to war, and it may, it’s the people of South Korea who will be called upon to make the sacrifice.
It’s not the awesome firepower of the US the criminal gang in Pyongyang should fear, but the fury of the armed might of South Korea should one bomb, shell or missile fall on Seoul.
This is no Iraq, or Afghanistan ! The People and political institutions of South Korea are willing, and more than able to liberate, rehabilitate and absorb their fellow Koreans into a peaceful and prosperous United Korea.
“Nobody takes him seriously” ! Yes, they do ! Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, UK, Singapore. NZ, Republic of China. Indonesia all have expressed solidarity with President Trump’s stance.
But the nation most worried is the PRC. The PRC is playing a very dangerous game.
Fortunately, Rex Tillerson is a very shrewd and astute negotiator. Very different from most Secretaries of State, since he’s not a politician, and has no political ambitions or party affiliations.
President Trump has just demonstrated how blinded by bad judgement and prejudice are most political pundits . The President has pushed Congress into repalcing the Obama unconstitutional executive order authorizing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and forced congress to legislate the program into law.
When he met opposition, he simply ignored part of his voter base, Republicans and did a deal with the Democrat’s to pass into law a program his opponent’s (including you Craig) said he wanted to kill.
That’s the real key to President Trump, he sees things in terms of objectives and accomplishments, like a company CEO, not like a politician who sees issues in terms of political opportunity and party maneuvering.
As Secretary of State Rex Tillersen will cut 20,000 + personnel Obama’s bloated nearly 100,000 employees along with $18 billion from the budget. (The US was still employing staff for countries that no longer exist).
Trump’s rhetoric may be a little awkward, even raucous and crude, but it sounds so much more reassuring than the smooth, politically correct, grovelling of weak appeasers and defeatists.
There is no dealing with regimes like Pyongyang. They are hell bent on destruction and taking everyone with them.
If you see a crazed, criminal fanatic, purchasing weapons and bomb making tools, should you wait until he has a really huge supply and fully stocked, or immediately intervene while there’s a chance of mitigating the damage ?
This is the choice the man in the White House must decide on behalf of his people, and his nations allies. He and he alone will make the ultimate decision.
God grant him the wisdom to make the right decision.
Craig,
I notice you are silent when the Trump administration succeeds in achieving long overdue reform such as the scandalously exploited 340B drug-pricing program, or successfully maneuvering Congress into accepting legislative responsibility for DACA.(You were loud with mistaken blame, yet silent when proven wrong).
I’m sure Trump has done a few good things. A few months ago, he made it easier to fire incompetent people at the VA. That sounded good to me, and I think I mentioned it at the time. But good things coming from this administration are like hens’ teeth.
If he really wanted to do the right thing by the 800K DACA recipients, he wouldn’t have thrown their future to the wind by cancelling the program. Yes, it will probably happen in Congress in some fashion, but it will be tied to some asinine security feature like the border wall.
He did that purely to score points with his base, most of which wants an America with as few people of color, as few Muslims, and as few Hispanic surnames as possible, regardless of how unAmerican we need to behave to get there.
And here’s the funny part about this to me: people who think like this truly are “deplorable.” What Hillary Clinton said about them was tactless and stupid beyond measure, but it wasn’t incorrect.
Craig,
Consider this:
1) The President has consistently maintained, both before taking office and once in office, the constitution doesn’t allow for replacing legislation with Presidential Decree, disguised as ‘Executive orders”.
Executive orders are reserved for the administration of existing Legislation.
2)The President didn’t ” throw their future to the wind” nor did he cancel the program.
What he did was give Congress a deadline to act by threatening to act. As he pointed out, the Supreme Court was about to rule Obama’s decree on DACA illegal, which would have led to mass arrests and deportations (or disobedience to the Court). It would have taken months to formulate, debate and pass legislation. The people would have suffered while congress waffled.
3) The President forced Congress to due their duty by these people, even at the expense of angering his own party and many of his own supporters.
4) It can’t be denied the result of his actions were a victory for good constitutional practice (at his own expense), Forcing Congress to act more responsibly,(at his own expense), effecting the most secure, compassionate outcome for those caught up in DACA (again at considerable risk to his support).
No you have to admit, if any other US politician who achieved such a principled outcome, especially when he could gain nothing and knew he would cop real flack from his own supporters, you would be singing his praises !
He’s a very unconventional politician. But credit where credit is due.