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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dale00" data-source="post: 3036121" data-attributes="member: 688">The bias I perceive in the article is towards negotiations and away from military action. This is typical for academic experts. Few have a broad enough perspective to fairly take in the military perspective on conflict resolution. Academics are as a rule, peaceniks.The article does not display, in any overt way, partisan political bias. I remain skeptical about the insights of "experts" even those with 30 years of experience and who enjoy respect in academic and related circles. Why? The fall of the Berlin wall and associated events were not predicted by any "experts". Seldom do you see experts discuss the probability that they are wrong - yet their knowledge and skills are fallible. They are in the business of promoting themselves as wise ones. The article points out that the executive order has some new and powerful features that will potentially enable economic war to be more effectively conducted than in the past. Should we trust the judgement of the President and his team of advisors or the judgments of "experts" based elsewhere? What is the basis for deciding between the two?? I lean toward trusting the judgement of the man voted into office. I believe him to be rational, intelligent, unconventionally and effectively provocative against his domestic opponents and the foreign enemies of this county. Our policies in dealing with NK, Iran, ISIS and other enemies has been a slow motion disaster over recent decades. The voters realized this and voted for change in the form of Trump.</blockquote>

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