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Sometimes You Have to Walk Away

Like Reagan at Reykjavik.

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Feb 28, 2019
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by Rod D. Martin
February 28, 2019

NORTH KOREA: Like Reagan at Reykjavik, the President walked away from a ludicrous demand. But the net result is likely to be a lot like Reykjavik, which in 1986 was said by the Democrats/Enemedia to be the end of the world, an abject failure, and a prelude to nuclear war; and yet, just over a year later, resulted in Reagan not only getting his way, but banning an entire class of nuclear weapons, something all those same experts had said "could never be done" and labeled "a fantasy."

Yeah, sometimes you have to walk away.

Kim is a dictator, yes, but he's not alone in Pyongyang. The people he has to keep in line, and who will happily murder him if he can't, have now learned that there's a limit to what Donald Trump will tolerate. They will now give Kim more room to negotiate seriously. Because let's be clear: North Korea needs a deal a lot more than we do.

Ditto China. Beijing, encouraged by the normal gang of American traitors, has been betting that the Pr…

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