{"id":362447,"date":"2018-05-23T13:46:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-libya-model-is-a-distraction\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:46:39","slug":"the-libya-model-is-a-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-libya-model-is-a-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Libya Model is a Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On <em>Fox News Sunday<\/em>, United States national security advisor John Bolton brought up the Libya model as a template for the denuclearization of North Korea. <\/p>\n<p>Following up, president Donald Trump noted, \u201cIn Libya, we decimated that country. That country was decimated.\u201d However, Trump did assure North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un that he\u2019d remain in power after denuclearization.<\/p>\n<p>Then came US vice-president Michael Pence on <em>Fox News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There was some talk about the Libyan model last week, and you know, as the President made clear, this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim Jong Un doesn\u2019t make a deal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When told that such a comparison could be viewed as a threat, Pence instead considered: \u201cWell, I think it\u2019s more of a fact.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>History tells a tale. After Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi gave up Libya\u2019s nuclear weapons program, he was eventually deposed by NATO bombing in support of rebels who brutally murdered Gaddafi in cold blood. Hillary Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gleefully cackled<\/a> about it on <em>CBS News<\/em> afterwards. <\/p>\n<p>What kind of dunderhead would Kim have to be not to realize the behind-the-curtain machinations Washington has planned for him and his government. The US simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iran-disinformation-and-sanctions-of-mass-destruction\/5640248\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">should not be believed or trusted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there seems to be an apparent wrench in the works of Washington\u2019s scheming. Kim, after all, has a nuclear bomb. It makes one wonder: what do Donald Trump and the US military establishment not understand about nuclear deterrence? There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibliotecapleyades.net\/ciencia\/ciencia_uranium15.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no winners in a&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/05\/the-libya-model-is-a-distraction\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fox News Sunday, United States national security advisor John Bolton brought up the Libya model as a template for the denuclearization of North Korea. Following up, president Donald Trump noted, \u201cIn Libya, we decimated that country. That country was decimated.\u201d However, Trump did assure North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un that he\u2019d remain in power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}