POTUS UN Speech

[Dill]

(09-20-2017, 04:35 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Would anyone be mad at trump if he called N. Korea the JV squad or is it just Rocketman we have issue with?

I think many people, not just Americans, would have been disappointed had Obama ever took the UN stage and, in a flourish of nationalist bravado, called world leaders and organizations names--"JV" or whatever.

But if, during a serious foreign policy interview, Obama or any other leader used the "team" analogy to clarify why (at the time) Al Qaeda still appeared the greater threat to the US than ISIS (e.g., having already killed 3,000 Americans in a direct attack and planning more, while ISIS was busy only in Syria and Iraq), then most would just hear rational policy analysis, not "name calling." The point would be to clarify a policy choice and not to call names.