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Home Front: Politix
H. R. McMaster may have changed his mind on Susan Rice after NORK nuke comment
2017-08-13
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster slammed predecessor Susan Rice for writing the U.S. could potentially "tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea," saying Sunday that "she's not right."

Rice, who served as National Security Adviser during the second term of the Obama administration, wrote in the New York Times that President Donald Trump's "bluster" was contributing to global anxiety.

"History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea -- the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War," she wrote. "It will require being pragmatic."

"Is she right?" ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked after reading out that section.

"No, she's not right, and I think the reason she's not right is that the classical deterrence theory, how does that apply to a regime like the regime in North Korea?" McMaster asked. "A regime that engages in unspeakable brutality against its own people. A regime that poses a continuous threat to its neighbors in the region and now may pose a direct threat to the United States with weapons of mass destruction."

Trump issued a series of mounting threats toward North Korea last week in response to further belligerent behavior from the rogue nuclear state. Trump at one point said North Korea could expect "fire and fury" if it continued threatening the U.S. and its allies.

On Friday, Trump said Kim Jong-un would "regret it fast" if he attacked the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  He is a member of the old guard where the old ways and alliances needed to be maintained. He doesn't yet get the game and changed and if he doesn't, he will fall with the left.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-08-13 20:10  

#3  Use the pot or get off it. There's a line.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-08-13 12:27  

#2  Will the real H.R. McMaster please stand up

General H.R. McMaster :Trump to Express Support for Palestinian ‘Self-determination’
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 11:44  

#1  Will the real H.R. McMaster please stand up ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-13 11:30  

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