Rational accommodationism in the White House

At any rate, Trump is behaving as if he has finally been persuaded of the strategic realities by the generals who now surround him. None of them believes that a war in the Korean peninsula would be a good thing for the United States, and they will have been working hard to persuade the US president to accept that fact. It looks like they have succeeded.

Gwynne Dywer writes that while U.S. President Donald Trump is ignorant and bombastic, he is not stupid, and 'if his generals tell him the facts often enough, he can be persuaded to behave with appropriate caution.'Gage Skidmore photograph

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 1, 2017

Here we go again. Whenever North Korea launches a new long-range missile or does another nuclear test, President Trump condemns the test and warns Pyongyang not to do it again, while his generals and diplomats point out that it “threatens the entire world.” But latterly, the pattern has been evo...

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