ldrews, on 2017-November-10, 14:41, said:
I would measure success as excellent if North Korea denuclearizes peacefully, success as moderate if force is required, and failure if nothing changes.
How about you? How would you measure success. What would you suggest is a better approach? Or are you just taking cheap shots because you have nothing to offer?
1. In general, the person making the claim is the one who is expect to explain just what the $^()^$ they're talking about.
2. I'd posted what I thought that best course of action was a few hours before your last "contribution". Perhaps you should read it
3. As for what Trump is doing, you are confusing meaningless statements with real action.
Diplomacy does not get conducting in public via inane Tweets.
It would be nice if both you and Trump learned this...
I will give you the following: Moving a third aircraft carrier into the Western Pacific is a very real action...
Sadly, I think that this is a prelude to something incredibly stupid.
> success as excellent if North Korea denuclearizes peacefully, success as moderate if force is required, and failure if nothing changes
What if North Korea is forcibly de-nuclearized but a half million people in South Korea die.
Is this success or failure?
(Given that this is the entire reason that no one has taken action against North Korea in the past you'd think that it would feature in your calculations somewhere)