Words For All Occasions

I was buying coffee this morning and the TV in the coffee shop was tuned to the local news channel for the cable system.  They were covering the reinstatement of the USA-North Korea summit meeting on June 12 in Singapore.  Then the newscast broadcast a comment on the development from Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal.  No surprise, Blumenthal had some criticism about the inadequate planning by President Trump and his people for the meeting.  The Blumster also gave his own view about the strategy that ought to be followed to come to a deal.

I didn't listen too closely to Blumenthal's comments.  I just remembered what he said months ago before there was any hint of a meeting between Kim Jung Un and President Trump.  Blumenthal warned repeatedly that the President was going to get America into a war, maybe a nuclear war, with the North Koreans as a result of his strong statements about Kim and the military buildup in and around Korea.  Blumenthal was wrong.

Then I remembered what Blumenthal said when we learned Kim had asked for a meeting with President Trump and the President had agreed to it.  That time Blumenthal said that it was foolish for the American president to meet with Kim Jung Un because it would just be a victory for Kim with nothing obtained in return.  Blumenthal was wrong.  Since that initial agreement, the North Koreans released three American hostages and blew up their main nuclear test site, among other things.

Then I remembered what Blumenthal had said when President Trump sent a letter cancelling the summit.  Blumenthal lamented Trump's lack of diplomatic skills.  He said that we should have not cancelled the meeting when the North Koreans failed to show up to preparatory meetings in Singapore but should have just postponed that summit.  After cancelling the meeting, we would likely never see it happen and the North Koreans would look like they wanted peace and we didn't.  Blumenthal was wrong -- AGAIN.  It took less than 24 hours for Kim to panic and try desperately to get the summit reinstated.  Unlike Obama, Trump wouldn't put up with Kim's BS moves and Kim was shocked by it.

So now Blumenthal is telling us again how the negotiations should be conducted.  That leads to a serious question.  How many times does senator Blumenthal have to get it wrong before the media realizes that he has no idea what he is talking about.  Why broadcast the words of this fool?  The media could just as easily ask my dog what she thinks of the summit preparations.