I know Republicans are super busy putting a big red bow on their corporate tax giveaway but—NEWS FLASH—there's a war brewing, people. Or, at least, military action.
That's a comment that should be getting attention from every effing member of Congress. It certainly got the attention of the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, who tweeted:
If @LindseyGrahamSC right, & i think he might be, [...] then why are we not exploring serious interim diplo options short of denuclearization?
Well, it seems like that is exactly what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was trying to do Tuesday when he made the open-ended offer to meet with North Korea and talk about basically anything, no preconditions.
“Let’s just meet and let’s — we can talk about the weather if you want,” he continued. “We can talk about whether it’s going to be a square table or a round table, if that’s what you’re excited about. But can we at least sit down and see each other face to face?”
But that overture was immediately rebuffed Tuesday night by White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said Trump still believed talks would be useless so long as North Korea was a continued threat to other countries in the region.
“North Korea is acting in an unsafe way not only toward Japan, China, and South Korea, but the entire world,” she said. “North Korea’s actions are not good for anyone and certainly not good for North Korea.”
Look, this administration doesn't even know what its own position is, let alone expecting anyone in the international community to decipher it. It's been a long time since my political science classes in undergrad, but I'm pretty damn certain miscommunication fueled by a loose cannon in the White House and a completely incompetent administration qualifies as "acting in an unsafe way."
We're talking about the destruction of as many as a million people, folks, according to one estimate.
Of course, the good news for Republicans is, not only will corporations be richer, they'll also survive a nuclear holocaust.