03-28-2018, 04:54 PM
(03-28-2018, 04:47 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I really don't know if meeting him is a good idea or not, but "how it's supposed to work" hasn't seemed all that effective. So I wouldn't use that as the basis of what to do and not do.
I'm not going to disagree that we need some new thinking on NK, but this goes beyond that. The head of state meeting is usually a ceremonial one to hammer out last minute details, smile for the cameras, and seal the deal. There is no country in which negotiations are going to be conducted by the head of state because they never know enough to get into the details. This is why there is (usually) a large staff in the State Department that are experts on regions, on countries, on individuals, on issues, and they work to hammer out any details. Then they call in the big guns for the final show of it all.
All this meeting will serve to do is provide Kim the legitimacy by a western nation that his father craved and he craves presently. By granting him that meeting, Trump has given him what he wants. He can go into the meeting, shake hands, get some photos, and come out the other side having talked about nothing but Stormy Daniels and he has what he wants without giving up anything.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
