Donald Trump’s plain speech to Kim Jong-un, delivered hot and loud

[Right_in_Virginia]

Donald Trump’s plain speech to Kim Jong-un, delivered hot and loud
The Washington Times, Aug 10, 2017, Wesley Pruden

Who knew that Kim Jong-un and his distinguished generals grew their skin so thin? A lot of people, mostly affrighted diplomats and denizens of assorted newsrooms on the Atlantic seawall, are still beside themselves in fear and loathing of President Trump’s fiery warning of what North Korea can expect if it gets big ideas about playing nuclear games.

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The usual skeptics are analyzing the president’s “fire and fury” message, as if it were a plate of scrapple, and finding that it was, in the words of The New York Times, “entirely improvised.” It certainly sounded like it did not go through the vettings that produce so much mush and bean sprouts in Foggy Bottom, where the passive voice is much admired and adjectives are weighed against adverbs to carefully craft a message that wouldn’t frighten anyone in striped pants.

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This president, for good or ill, is not like previous presidents, and it’s past time to indulge wishes that everything could be like it used to be. Barack Obama, who bequeathed this crisis to his successor, spoke in prose polished with nuance and nonsense. Donald Trump speaks like an angry foreman on a construction site coming in late and over-budget. You can bet Kim Jong-un hears him, loud and clear.


More: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/10/donald-trumps-plain-speech-to-kim-jong-un-delivere/

[Right_in_Virginia]

TTTT for vintage Pruden   

[aligncare]

I'm glad Pres. Trump didn't use typical, phony, politicians language of diplomacy and talk of back channel negotiations. Trump is more like Reagan in that regard. North Korea understands exactly where the president stands. There's no mistaking or misjudging Trump's resolve.

All of this hubbub should be viewed in light of our history with NK. Until Trump, president after president kept going back to diplomacy, as if it hadn't been tried before.

And all that resulted was appeasement and kicking the can down the road. Until Trump.

[TomSea]

Retired General Jack Keane pointed out on Fox this morning how all of these countries were able to bedevil us under the Obama administration, North Korea, rise of ISIS, Venezuela.

No wonder the Democrats protest all of this.

[truth_seeker]

Facts: My paternal grandfather registered for the draft in 1918 at age 37, then my maternal grandfather registered for the draft in 1942 at age 46 (although he served in WWI already).

I wonder if  affrighted #nevertrumps  worry they might someday be called to serve, not talk?