(04-18-2018 10:36 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote: (04-18-2018 07:52 AM)Paul M Wrote: (04-17-2018 11:25 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote: (04-17-2018 10:01 PM)Paul M Wrote: (04-17-2018 09:37 PM)TechRocks Wrote: Why is it dumb for the US to believe, even demand, it should be an integral part of any peace negotiation between the two countries?
Topic is Trump saying they have his blessing. They don't need it. Nor did they ask for it.
I'm amazed that were at a point where the Korean War's end is being discusses and the TDS brigade is more concerned with Trump's clumsy choice of words.
We agree his words were dumb. Not seeing the problem. ?
I said clumsy, not dumb... I asked for my FIL's blessing to marry my wife, I did not ask for his permission. Had he said no, I almost certainly still would have married my wife.
It all comes back to the fact that Trump is a *terrible* speaker off the cuff. His "style", if you could call it that, makes me cringe nearly every time he talks. But FFS as great a speaker as Teleprompter enabled Obama was, I hated nearly everything the man did in office.
I'll take a clumsy speaker who played tough with Korea six months ago, sent the CIA director there last week, and "blesses" peace negotiations between the countries.
My point is... That in a thread about the Korean war potentially ending... Your *FIRST* expressed thought was...
Quote:Two nations at war need our, Trumps, blessing to discuss peace between THEM?
Not... "Oh I hope this goes well, this could be big"... Or even "Well I don't trust X, but hopefully I'm wrong".
You're first instinct was to find an angle to attack trump. Whether or not that was reflexive or intentional, it's very telling.
Hum.
No need in trying to get any telling from my posts. I don't like the man. Haven't for 30 some years. Pretty sure that's quite obvious to even an infrequent visitor here.
My second post would explain why I didn't jump up and do a celebratory dance in my first. Someone's hopes leapt from the news, ok. Ho hum for me. Sorry. My reaction. Would seem to be a pretty understandable one to anyone living on this planet.
Do I shrug when I hear talk of peace for the umpteenth time in my life? Yep. I celebrated the Berlin wall coming down. When it came down. I didn't in '79. I'll save my enthusiasm 'till an appropriate time. And when it involves N Korea? An appropriate time and then some.
You've read me for years. I disappointed you not stating an obvious?
Peace between the K's would be fantastic.
There.
His arrogant ass said something stupid. Or clumsily stupid. I can walk and chew gum at the same time. Wanting to see peace, remaining a realist, and criticize an ass? Walk, chew and snap my fingers. Easy peasy.
And to be fair, you managed to bring an attack on a Chicago community organizer into a thread about a potential end to the Korean war. Guess you get cut a little slack 'cause it wasn't your first expressed thought.
Save the TDS bs. I expect it from the orange ball worshiping apologists, spinners, deniers and outright liars around here. You know, the actual sufferers of TDS along with the leftist's swearing he's guilty of crimes not in evidence. I'm in neither camp of deranged loons. It's a head scratcher you think I am.