Ignatius Compares Trump’s Rhetoric on N. Korea to ‘Great Mistakes in History ... that Led to WWI’

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IGNATIUS: “It’s hard for me to imagine the rhetoric getting much nastier than this. We need to remember that this is a culture where shame and dignity matter. The President is deliberately trying to shame Kim Jong-un, rocket man, now he’s 'little rocket man.' And at some point you can goad people into action. Perhaps President Trump hopes to goad China into action with his rhetoric of 'fire and fury' and threat of war. The Chinese certainly are doing more than they had. I don’t know anybody who is watching this crisis as it heads into, really, its most dangerous phase who doesn’t think this is a time for quiet talk and perhaps quiet action, not visible to us. But conducting this over the airwaves, as the President has, is taking this to a point where people almost have to react. You think of the great mistakes in history, the process that led to World War I, if we were to run this tape back for historians in the future, they would just shake their heads.”