[on tensions with North Korea, September 2017] This witches' brew of trouble is befalling the United States on President Trump's watch because the Obama administration basically did nothing to attenuate the danger. Instead it dressed up inactivity and passivity in the face of the metastasizing danger as 'strategic patience'...Unfortunately, in the absence of urgent course corrections on several fronts, the period now dawning is likely to be one of strategic blackmail.
