Yesterday, Hillary Clinton warned against the danger of improvising at the upcoming meeting between President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. According to Hillary, there aren't enough experienced diplomats to enable the President to have a successful negotiation with Kim.
Think about that. Obama was president for eight years, and Hillary was Secretary of State for more than half of that time. In all that time, there was no progress towards stopping the North Korean nuclear weapons and missile programs. Kim Jong Un and his father before just had a cadre of scientists who built nuclear weapons and designed and built ICBMs all during the Obama/Clinton years. And during all that time, no doubt Hillary would tell us that there were certainly enough experienced diplomats at the State Department. Somehow, however, all those experienced diplomats did nothing.
Now we have had President Trump for a little over a year. He has confronted the North Koreans in ways that would have horrified Obama and Clinton. For example, President Trump taunted Kim by calling him "little rocket man" and by saying that the US nuclear button was much bigger than the North Korean one. More important, Trump pressured the Chinese to help confront the NK's; he loaded the area with American military power, and he continually talked about the fact that the US would handle the North Koreans "one way or the other." It seems to be working, and he did it without all those experienced diplomats whose absence Hillary denounces.
Basically, Hillary Clinton is showing again why it is a good thing that she is not president. She is upset and concerned because President Trump has approached the North Korean problem in a different way from how it was done for the last 20 years. We know that the old way was a failure, but that seems not to matter in the least to Hillary. Even worse, Hillary seems not to care that Trump's new way could possibly be working. She's still against it.
Think about that. Obama was president for eight years, and Hillary was Secretary of State for more than half of that time. In all that time, there was no progress towards stopping the North Korean nuclear weapons and missile programs. Kim Jong Un and his father before just had a cadre of scientists who built nuclear weapons and designed and built ICBMs all during the Obama/Clinton years. And during all that time, no doubt Hillary would tell us that there were certainly enough experienced diplomats at the State Department. Somehow, however, all those experienced diplomats did nothing.
Now we have had President Trump for a little over a year. He has confronted the North Koreans in ways that would have horrified Obama and Clinton. For example, President Trump taunted Kim by calling him "little rocket man" and by saying that the US nuclear button was much bigger than the North Korean one. More important, Trump pressured the Chinese to help confront the NK's; he loaded the area with American military power, and he continually talked about the fact that the US would handle the North Koreans "one way or the other." It seems to be working, and he did it without all those experienced diplomats whose absence Hillary denounces.
Basically, Hillary Clinton is showing again why it is a good thing that she is not president. She is upset and concerned because President Trump has approached the North Korean problem in a different way from how it was done for the last 20 years. We know that the old way was a failure, but that seems not to matter in the least to Hillary. Even worse, Hillary seems not to care that Trump's new way could possibly be working. She's still against it.
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