Many people, mainly news media, disparage President Trump’s bellicose remarks to North Korea.
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Editor,
Many people, mainly news media, disparage President Trump’s bellicose remarks to North Korea. They belittled President Reagan’s bellicose remarks about the Soviet Union. The news media called him a cowboy who shoots from the lip. We all know what happened to the Soviet Union.
For those who think we should use only diplomacy with dictators, here are headlines and the first few paragraphs from a British newspaper Sept. 30, 1938, nine months after I was born; The British Prime Minister has been hailed as bringing “peace to Europe.” After signing a non-aggression pact with Germany. PM Neville Chamberlain arrived back in the UK today, holding an agreement signed by Adolf Hitler, which stated the German leader’s desire never to go to war with Britain again. Mr. Chamberlain declared the accord with the Germans signaled “peace for our time,” after he had read it to a jubilant crowd gathered at Heston airport in west London.
Hitler didn’t keep his signed promises made to Neville Chamberlain. A year later the German leader ridiculed the agreement as just a “scrap of paper” and invaded Poland on