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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

New Sheriff in town

From both the twitter and FB accounts of Donald Trump comes the following message:
"While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help w/ North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!" That most certainly does not sound like any desire or intent to engage North Korea but rather resolve that we have turned a corner and those options are now gone.
    For those living under a rock, North Korea had held an American, Otto Warmbier,  He was returned to the US in a coma and subsequently died. The grievous charge he was held on? Stealing a propaganda poster to keep as a souvenir. Between the continued provocations of missile launch after missile launch and the declaration that he can now hit American soil, this march has been coming since the 1950s. It is a long popular saying from Voltaire that "Nature abhors a vacuum" but I think that Tennessee  Williams got it right when he said that "A Vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with." We have had a kick the problem down the road attitude with Korea since the end of the conflict. We have supported South Korea in arms and talk but failed to stop North Korea from the slippery descent into the dark minds of the Kims. I feel that the can is about to be kicked in a whole new direction.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vacuum_2.html
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vacuum_2.html
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/vacuum_2.html

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