To: Brumar89 who wrote (1034096 ) 10/16/2017 4:08:02 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to North Korea won't "get the message." Trump's weakness has already damaged deterrence and that's the "message" North Korea has gotten. North Korea will very likely remain on a "business-as-usual" course: highly provocative, continuing to develop and test its missiles, and occasionally detonating a nuclear device. Leadership failure has high costs and few Presidents have demonstrated the lack of leadership capacity Trump has during their first nine months in office.The Washington Post concerning President Trump's great punt on the multilateral Iran agreement was, "The president leaves Congress to fix the mess he's made on Iran." A fitting title for the Trump Administration to date would be, "The President leaves Congress to fix the mess he's made." Whether one is dealing with trade policy, foreign policy, basic Constitutional protections and requirements, or the hurricane relief effort in Puerto Rico, President Trump has created one mess after another. incapable of making even modestly beneficial deals. Just as he made an aborted attempt to outsource the North Korea problem to China--despite large differences in American and Chinese interests related to North Korea--Trump is attempting to outsource the responsibilities of leadership to a polarized Congress (all the while setting records for most days on a golf course). Worse, he is doing so after creating messes that need to be cleaned up.
