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Credibility Problem at the G-20
By John Cassidy
4:03 P.M.
... Trump isn’t the first President to have struggled with the North Korean issue. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all searched in vain for a way to stop Pyongyang’s drive for nuclear weapons. But none of Trump predecessors made a declaration like the one Trump issued in January. As Simon Jenkins, a former editor of The Economist and the London Times, commented in the Guardian, “The trouble with issuing ultimatums around the globe is that they invite the reckless to call your bluff and make you look a fool” ...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-credibility-problem-at-the-g-20-summit