24 May 2018 — 1007 mdt
“Let us never fear to negotiate”
President Trump, once eager to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, has chickened out of the summit meeting that was scheduled for 12 June in Singapore. In doing so, he gave Jong-un a piece of his mind, but decided against giving peace a chance.
A president and former Naval officer who survived war employed a different approach.
In his inaugural speech, John F. Kennedy said:
So let us begin anew — remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Trump fears to negotiate, but he does not fear to rattle the nuclear sword and raise the specter of war.
Therefore, let us begin anew, without Trump.