Trump’s Boring, Utterly Terrifying Warmongering<br />“To be clear: The president would be putting at risk an American population the size of a medium-size U. S. city — Pittsburgh, say, or Cincinnati — on the assumption<br />that a crazy and undeterrable dictator will be rationally cowed by a demonstration of U. S. kinetic power,” he wrote.<br />I will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position.”<br />Trump had in the audience the parents and siblings of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean forced-labor camp,<br />and who died after being sent back to the United States with severe injuries.<br />A few hours before Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, the news broke<br />that the White House was scrapping its choice for ambassador to South Korea, a position that remains unfilled a year into the administration.
