(04-30-2018 04:24 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I mean, do you disagree that Trump's attitude may have played a role? In the past, all other president's seemed to know not to poke North Korean for fear of a retaliation. Trump's bellicose nature flew in the face of previous administrations' approach and may have been enough to spook North Korea.
Would you prefer that the left and right adulate him for his statesmen like manner and rhetoric? I'm not sure what else Trump has done differently from previous admins, or than this, that may have encouraged North Korea to the table - do you?

What I'd prefer is for left and right to realize that sometimes you have to rattle sabers to get a result. If we had taken more of a Trump approach toward Iran, I think we'd have ended up with a much better deal than the piece of paper we got, which is essentially worthless except getting a bunch of cash back into the hands of the Iranians.

We're a long way from having this deal done. We're about where Kissinger had Sinai when he passed it off to Carter, and that deal did not go final for a while. But we are further down the road to a deal than we have been before, at least symbolically, and symbols mean something in foreign policy.