Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

The Singapore Fling

Here is my expert hot take on the US-PRK summit:

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North Korea wanted a handshake meeting with a US president.  They got it.  The US wanted a denuclearized Korean peninsula.  They didn't get it.

But because all of our media coverage - but especially or foreign policy coverage - is so fundamentally stupid, the fact that Trump accomplished no real world goals, only optics, will go unchallenged for a few days.  Trump will get some broad sense of "win" (wait for the "at this moment he truly became presidential" takes), and then as the nothingburger proves to be even less than a nothingburger, people will have moved on. 

Now, if only we could be as solicitous to Canada as to North Korea.

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