Too Soft on North Korea

[T]hreats from Washington may have strengthened a sense of unity and sovereignty among citizens who want peace.

The Brotherhood enjoys a wider reach inside the U..S and growing influence among a rapidly expanding Muslim community.

For a nation founded on massacres of Native Americans and centuries-long African slave ownership, the lurch towards racism under Trump is not surprising.

What perhaps remains unresolved, is how long the American electorate will allow Trump to reduce their country into a paranoia state, an empire of appalling tantrums and ragtag diplomacy.

The truth is that the Americans are pathologically unreliable and unscrupulously treacherous.