March 28, 2018: Can Trump Close the Deal with North Korea?

 

3/28/18: The president starts off Hump Day in a chipper mood, even if Melania is hiding out at Mar-a-Lago and avoiding him like he’s a leper. 

 

An Iran-like nuclear deal? 

Trump believes he’s making progress on the question of North Korea. Even this Trump-phobic blogger is willing to say this may be true. 

China cannot relish the idea of war erupting on its doorstep. For that reason, the Chinese may lean hard on North Korea. 

Normally, a fair-minded person might credit the B.O.B. in this matter, and not refer to Trump as the “Big Orange Buffoon.” 

The problem is this blogger has enough brain cells left to recall Trump’s comments regarding the foreign policy of his predecessors. Mr. Blogger thinks that the Iraq War was a disaster and voted against George W. Bush in 2004, partly on that basis. He also remembers when Sean Hannity was cheerleading for that war and said that those of us who didn’t cheer with him were un-American. Now Trump says the war was a horrible mistake, and Hannity cheers for Trump. Mr. Blogger also understands that our current president has chosen John Bolton, one of the loudest, cartwheeling cheerleaders for the 2003 invasion, as his third National Security Advisor. 

As for North Korea, let’s say Trump does manage to get a deal. Imagine that Kim Jong-un agrees to “denuclearize.” What will that mean? Who will enforce the pact? How will inspections be handled, to ensure the North Koreans honor the deal? Will they give up their stockpiles of nuclear material? Will they destroy the medium and long-range missiles they possess, tear up their launch facilities, and fill in all their underground research and testing facilities? 

Even if Kim Jong-un agrees to denuclearize, what will Trump end up with? An Iran-like nuclear deal.

The hosts at Fox News were all for the War in Iraq in 2003.

POSTSCRIPT: If you’d care for a heaping dose of hypocrisy, click on this link and compare what people like Hannity said about the War in Iraq in 2003, compared to how he and others fawn over Trump now – when he calls the war a stupid, costly mistake.