President Obama adopted a policy of "strategic patience"
to slow North Korea's rush to become a nuclear state. The policy
failed, but Obama's media enablers downplayed the looming threat and
shielded him from criticism in the process. Unsurprisingly, North
Korea's ambitions became a big story after President Trump inherited the
crisis.
Conventional wisdom held that Trump would find himself in the same box as Obama, the Bushes, and Clinton, unable to do anything except cajole China and hope Kim Jung-un was years away from achieving his goals. We know now that the danger is imminent.
But Trump is an unconventional president whose history suggests he is not one to stand by idly or experience paralysis when confronted with major challenges. He acts. Witness the results when Trump unleashed the military to go after ISIS.
The president has declared he will not tolerate a North Korea with nuclear-tipped ICBMs. I believe he's deadly serious. While the "Great Successor" may publicly appear oblivious to his precarious position, the signs must be ominous even to him: we have amassed a mighty force off the Korean Peninsula; Japan and South Korea are preparing their people for war; and China, anticipating a conflict, is building refugee camps along its border with North Korea.
Conventional wisdom held that Trump would find himself in the same box as Obama, the Bushes, and Clinton, unable to do anything except cajole China and hope Kim Jung-un was years away from achieving his goals. We know now that the danger is imminent.
But Trump is an unconventional president whose history suggests he is not one to stand by idly or experience paralysis when confronted with major challenges. He acts. Witness the results when Trump unleashed the military to go after ISIS.
The president has declared he will not tolerate a North Korea with nuclear-tipped ICBMs. I believe he's deadly serious. While the "Great Successor" may publicly appear oblivious to his precarious position, the signs must be ominous even to him: we have amassed a mighty force off the Korean Peninsula; Japan and South Korea are preparing their people for war; and China, anticipating a conflict, is building refugee camps along its border with North Korea.
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