I’m not offended!

[L Verge]

Let me guess, the Fact Checker is a liberal project. And, who is checking the Fact Checker?

I'm sorry, but this constant atmosphere of negativity on both sides is not doing anything to help Make America Strong Again. It seems that anyone and everyone today can put a sentence together and it ends up being pounced on (even when it is a positive statement), debated, criticized, spread around the world, and even end up as a book.

As for North Korea - I already said that my father spent the war in Korea, but I didn't mention that he was unhappy with the way it "ended." As for making friends with the regime there, my personal opinion is, "Forget it."

However, friendship seldom has much to do with politics and diplomacy. Just like other "foes" that we deal with, once they get a taste of being a nuclear threat, I doubt they will stop producing. However, I still abide by the old phrase of "know thine enemy" and the one about "catching more flies with honey..." Maintaining at least a courteous relationship with these countries keeps us on their radar and more aware of their actions.

I am certainly not well-versed on Mr. Lincoln and his politics, but I think I'm safe in saying that he used a great deal of "friendly diplomacy" to try to ease things. In the case of Maryland, he promised a lot to keep us in the Union and delivered on virtually nothing -- but it worked long enough to get Union troops to D.C. for protection and into the Maryland countryside to enforce martial law.

Nowadays, we seldom know the whole convoluted story of what is going on behind the scenes in our politics and diplomacy related to any country, and that applies to whatever administration/party is in power as well as what gets filtered to the press or what the press makes up.