How President Trump Can Still Win His Nobel On Korea By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2018-05-25 at 13:48:53 )

How President Trump Can Still Win His Nobel on Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger

All is not lost. Despite the fact that President Trump has cancelled his much-ballyhooed summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, the president and his army of Trumpsters and Trumpistas need not despair. There is still an opportunity for him to win his Nobel Prize for Peace.

First things first, however.

In 1962, a Cold War curmudgeon named Fred Schwarz published a book entitled "You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)". The idea behind the book, of course, was not that you could really trust the communists. The point was the exact opposite. Communists could not be trusted at all, on anything, especially since they were hell-bent on one overarching goal: to turn the United States of America Red.

That was the anti-communist mindset of the United States national-security establishment - i.e., the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency - during the entire Cold War. The notion was that it would be impossible for the United States and the rest of the free world to ever enter into a peaceful and friendly relationship with the Soviet Union (especially Russia), China, North Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, or any other communist state.

That is because, United States officials said, any such agreement would necessarily depend on trusting the communists. And the fact was, they steadfastly maintained, communists could never be trusted on anything.

That is why the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency were so filled with rage against President John F. Kennedy, who, in the months leading up to his assassination, began secretly working with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to establish peaceful and friendly relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. (See FFFs book "JFKs War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated" by Douglas Horne .) In the eyes of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, President Kennedy was hopelessly naïve and was taking America down the road to a communist takeover.

Now, consider the following title for another book: You Can Always Trust United States Officials (to be United States Officials). That is, you can always count on United States officials to lie, deceive, double-cross, double-deal, and renege on their agreements.

That problem is central to the United States-North Korea controversy. That is why I have always skeptical about the chances for success in the Trump-Kim summit. The deal that United States officials are offering North Korea necessarily depends on having North Korea trust United States officials. And the problem is: You can always trust United States officials (to be United States officials).

Trump was essentially saying to North Korea: "As part of our deal, you need to dismantle your nuclear weapons. And you need to do it first. Once you do that, I promise you that the United States will lift its brutal sanctions that are killing your people and will never ever initiate a regime-change operation against you. Even better, I will make North Korea rich, notwithstanding its socialist economic system."

The United States position clearly poses a big problem for North Korea. The only reason it developed nuclear weapons in the first place was to deter the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency from initiating a violent regime-change operation against North Korea, just like the ones they have initiated ever since the United States government was converted into a national-security state after World War II. Coming to mind are Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, among others.

If North Korea were to accept President Trumps deal, it would necessarily be placing its trust in United States officials to keep their word and lift the deadly sanctions and not initiate a regime-change operation - after North Korea has given up the one thing that could deter a violent United States regime-change operation, one that would involve a massive carpet-bombing campaign by American B-52s, something that United States officials never cease to remind North Koreans with their periodic "military exercises" in South Korea.

But that is the rub: United States officials can not be trusted to keep their word. They lie, deceive, double-cross, double-deal, and renege on their agreements.

Just ask the Russians, who United States officials double-crossed by breaking their word to not expand NATO by absorbing Eastern European countries after the Cold War (supposedly) ended.

Or ask anyone in Libya, whose dictator Muammar Qaddafi was double-crossed by United States officials by being ousted from power in a regime-change operation after he trusted United States officials by abandoning his nuclear-weapons program.

Or ask Iran, who has just been double-crossed by United States officials, who are breaking their promise to lift sanctions after Iran agreed to dismantle its nuclear program.

Indeed, ask the members of Congress, who were lied to, under oath, by none other than a Central Intelligence Agency director, Richard Helms, who was glorified by his cohorts at the Central Intelligence Agency precisely because he had committed perjury before Congress, as well as a director of national intelligence, James Clapper, who was never charged with a crime.

The simple fact is: North Korean officials would be stupid to trust United States officials. While certainly not a perfect guarantee against a United States regime-change operation, North Koreas nuclear weapons are the best chance that North Korea has to deter such an operation. Giving up its nuclear weapons would be a mistake North Koreans could only make once, as Gaddafi learned and as Iran has learned.

Does that mean that there is no chance for arriving at a peaceful resolution in Korea? Absolutely not!! And that brings us to how Trump, Trumpsters, and Trumpistas can still win a Nobel Prize for Peace for the president.

Let us keep in mind something important that the mainstream media tends to forget: Fundamentally, this is not a war between the United States and North Korea. North Korea never attacked and invaded the United States. Instead, it attacked and invaded South Korea in an attempt to unify the country by force, just as President Lincoln invaded the Confederate States of America in an attempt to unify the country. The Korean War has always been a civil between North Korea and South Korea.

The problem is that the United States government decided to intervene in that civil war, coming into it on the side of South Korea even though the war was none of the United States governments business.

It is worth noting that the United States intervention was always illegal under our form of government, given that there was never a congressional declaration of war, as required by the United States Constitution.

It is also worth noting that the Pentagon had to revert to conscription - i.e., force - to secure the necessary number of American soldiers to go fight thousands of miles away from American shores in another nations civil war that was really none of the United States governments business.

In fact, let us call the United States government by what it was (and what it still is): a buttinski government, one that butts into the affairs of other nations, even while crying and lamenting that foreign regimes like Russia are supposedly butting into the United States of Americas affairs.

Have you ever wondered why the North Korean people hate Mr. Buttinski so much? It is because after Mr. Buttinski butted into Koreas civil war, it unleashed death and destruction on an unimaginable scale, much worse than would have been the case if Mr. Buttinski had never butted into the conflict.

In fact, I wonder how many Americans realize that the Pentagon dropped more bombs on North Korea - 635,000 tons of explosives plus 32,000 tons of napalm - than it ever dropped in the entire Pacific theater in World War II.

No village, town, hamlet, or city was considered immune. Everyone in North Korea was considered fair game because they were all considered to be gooks, Reds, commies, vermin, and animals. That is, in fact, why there is still no reluctance today to kill massive numbers of North Korean people with the ever-brutal United States sanctions.

It is why United States officials and their acolytes in the United States mainstream press exult whenever the United States sanctions start "biting" by killing more North Koreans through starvation and illness.

If you want to get a good grasp on why North Koreans hate Mr. Buttinski so much, read "this article".

The best thing that could ever happen to the Korean people - North and South - and, for that matter to the American people - is for Mr. Buttinski to simply come home and leave Korea to the Koreans. It is their war, not a war between North Korea and the United States. North Korea never attacked the United States. It never intended to attack the United States. It still does not intend to attack the United States. Those nuclear missiles are intended solely to deter a United States regime-change operation. Once Mr. Buttinski comes home, those nuclear weapons become irrelevant.

In fact, the dark perverse irony is that it is United States interventionism in the first place that motivated North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons. And now that perverse outcome of interventionism is being used as the excuse for further interventionism, just as ISIS, which the United States invasion of Iraq produced, has been used as an excuse for further interventionism in the Middle East.

The best chance for peace is for North Korea and South Korea to be free to reach their own deal, without the interference of Mr. Buttinski. It is their war. It is their peace.

Is there a chance that President Trump could be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by bringing United States troops home and letting the two Koreas reach their own peace agreement? Why not? If butting into a conflict can bring a Nobel, why should butting out not do it as well??

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!