31 December 2017

ENTRY 10: WRITING IN THE MIDDLE OF A POLARIZING CRISIS

VAN JACKSON

It’s getting harder to sustain a reasonable discourse about North Korea.

The political left keeps resorting to pacifist tropes about diplomacy being the only solution or the United States being the problem, but without advancing any theory of the case. In what universe will sitting down with a nuclear state and saying some special configuration of words convince them to give up what they equate with their survival? Diplomats are not wizards.

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