POTUS UN Speech

[Dill]

(09-20-2017, 05:41 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Here we have more of your, "It's ok to punch someone if there message is offensive enough", bullshit.  If NK launches an attack on anyone it will be their own doing, the blame will lie solely with them.  

Since its foundation, the US has expected its leaders, especially presidents, to make foreign policy judgments in the interest of the  country as a whole. That means, especially, understanding the long term implications of both rhetoric and actions on the prosperity and safety of the US. The fact that a president or other leader may be dealing with a bad actor does not absolve him from accountability.  E.g. a US officer who, in 1944, ordered a raw, undermanned platoon of soldiers to attack a battery of SS machine guns across open ground in Belgium might expect a court-martial--even if the resulting US deaths were the Nazis "doing."

Regarding NK, there are at least two options: 1) diffuse the situation through diplomacy, or 2) increase the likelihood of conflict with belligerent rhetoric and military brinkmanship.

If Trump chooses the former, resolving the conflict without a war, then he should be credited for that outcome. 

If he chooses option 2 and it leads to a conflagration on the DMZ, or worse, then Trump should be accountable for poor judgment--even if Kim is "to blame" for thousands of American and Korean deaths.