Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   As I have said before Mr H Date:   5/31/2019 6:45:04 PM

The easy way out is yours.  Condemn him for not knowing what he is doing.  Say he is a fool, a narcissist, and all other foul things.  But as Hound will most likely agree, there is so much more to international diplomacy than what appears on network television or ANY of the cable "news" channels.  I see no reason to fall for what is put out for public consumption but would rather watch to see what happens as a result.  Appearances are Trump extended an olive branch at the first summit and Kim responded with some minor returns and one big one, he stopped testing.  But Kim misread Trump and found out the hard way that he couldn't pull the double cross on Trump that he had pulled on others and go back to his old ways of demanding all for nothing in return.  Trump embarrassed the hell out of Kim by getting up and walking out on him, and as I said in another post Kim had to save face so he shot one or two and put the rest at hard labor, making it their fault and not his.  Might Trump have anticipated something like that would happen?  Maybe.  Would Kim possibly have come to the summit prepared to continue a give and take?  Worth a try.  Are we going to fail to go forward and possibly risk millions of incinerated Koreans (and others) because it might not work and there might be consequences that we find despicable?

Arch the world is not black and white and Trump is neither all good nor all bad.  But I question what you think you are going to accomplish with all your railing against him.  I said in another post that different cultures arent right or wrong, just different and I will say the same about the posters here.  Because someone doesn't agree with you that person isn't stupid, a moron, an imbecile, a Trumpista, or any of the convenient epithets you so freely dish out. I will continue to believe the way I do until logic and reason demands I believe otherwise, and you should give others the courtesy of stopping the name calling and lay out your reasonong for them to consume...then after they decide give them the respect to hold those opinions.

And yes, that last bit of advice should be heeded by everyone posting on this forum.