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struggle4progress

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Wed Aug 9, 2017, 01:12 PM Aug 2017

North Korea warnings 'unnecessary, scary, irresponsible'

By Herman Wong
August 9 at 8:32 AM

... KELLY: "Unnecessary" in the sense that the North Koreans already know that we dislike them, that we want them to act differently and so on and so on. And just a few days before, Secretary Tillerson was on TV saying "we're not your enemy" and Trump goes off and says this.

He just undercut his own secretary of state. So that’s what I meant by unnecessary.

"Scary" because .. he .. sounds ... like some prophet from the Old Testament talking about fire and brimstone.

And "irresponsible" because it sounds like Trump shooting his mouth off again. Maybe his national security team approved of that kind of language, but it sounds a lot like what Trump does on Twitter, which is shooting his mouth off and saying stuff and his national security people have to walk it back in the next couple of days ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/09/why-trumps-north-korea-warnings-were-unnecessary-scary-irresponsible/?utm_term=.93cda0b346f9

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