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The dictates of the many outweigh the druthers of the one.
A polemic is evolving right before our eyes within the US Intelligence Community. Some members are declaring that while North Korea has undertaken to destroy the site of launching missiles from Sohae, it does not actually have the slightest intention of doing so.
This debate arises after President Donald Trump made a commitment to withdraw US troops from South Korea.
This situation cannot help but bring back to our mind the identical pledge made by Jimmy Carter, during his 1976 electoral campaign. Yet when Carter was elected president,
he was unable to follow through with his promise: the US Intel community and the Pentagon joined hands to prevent the US withdrawing from South Korea. Finally, a NSA report, drafted by John Armstrong, provided evidence that the North Korean armed forces had become more powerful than South Korea's, and that, consequently,
withdrawing US troops would effectively mean delivering up South Korea to North Korea. Of course, just like Team B's 1976 Report on the Soviet Military Power,
all the data was false. Although President Carter fired General Singlaub from his position as commander of PaCom (the Command of the US Armed Forces in the Pacific), nothing came of it. Accused of endangering an ally, he was forced to resign.
Comment: There's a growing chorus of anti-EU sentiment in Europe whose citizens are increasingly frustrated with Brussel's dictatorial control and its inability to manage the refugee crisis:
- 'This Europe is not showing solidarity': After shutting ports to migrant rescue ship, Rome rebukes EU criticism
- Europe's populist wave may sweep Angela Merkel next
- Italian deputy PM Matteo Salvini: Very existence of United Europe to be decided within the year
- Polish president compares EU membership to occupation: Foreign control, no sovereignty
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