Pence bashes North Korea's military parade, endorses Trump's parade

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News




By MARK OSBORNE and ADAM KELSEY
Feb 9, 2018, 3:31 AM ET

Vice President Mike Pence engaged in a game of parade one-upmanship on Friday as he spoke to reporters in South Korea ahead of the opening ceremonies for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Pence was asked about Thursday's military parade in North Korea overseen by dictator Kim Jong Un. He directly criticized the parade, but was then asked if the U.S. had ceded "moral high ground" on the issue given President Donald Trump's interest in holding such a parade himself.

"I think any opportunity we have to celebrate the men and women of the armed forces of the United States is a great day," Pence said, supporting Trump's request to plan a military parade. "I heartily support the president's call to celebrate our military." But Pence continued, calling the North Korean parade "an ongoing provocation."

"Make no mistake about it, what we witnessed in Pyongyang, and we witnessed again yesterday, on the eve of the Olympics -- what [South Korean] President Moon [Jae-in] said last night, he hopes will be an Olympics of peace -- was once again an effort on the part of the regime in Pyongyang to display their ballistic missiles, to display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world.


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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Brings up the question of whether or not Pence could pass a mental exam.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. This parade is driving me nuts

all i can think of is Tchaikovsky's "March of the Toy Soldiers". Little men playing war games.

[paleotn]

3. No it's not...

It's using one of our respected institutions as a political prop. No different than any other dictator with self esteem issues. The really damaging thing is, this continued rhetoric has so damaged US / SK relations that it may never repaired.

How would we feel if Japan kept pushing towards military conflict with Mexico. Conflict that meant the death of possibly hundreds of thousands of Americans and the destruction of much of our economy, with little to zero impact on Japan directly. I doubt we'd ever be able to fully trust them ever again, no matter who gets elected in the next Japanese election cycles.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Typical Republican hypocrisy...............

"THEIR" parade is provocative - "OUR" parade is patriotic.

"THEIR" debt is destructive - "OUR" debt is productive

"THEIR" candidate is crooked - "OUR" candidate is, well, crooked, BUT WE DON'T CARE!!!!!!!

[FakeNoose]

5. Let's have a moron parade - start with Trump & Pence

[dalton99a]

6. To the Editor:

Re “Trump Wants a Military Parade, but Not Everyone Is in Step” (news article, Feb. 8):

Many adult men obsessed with the trappings of the military have never been anywhere near a combat zone. Men who have seen the chaos and carnage of war often want no reminders of the experience.

My father, for example, was a Marine Corps and Office of Strategic Services veteran who was awarded the Silver Star for his heroism helping combat the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. He rarely spoke of the war, never consumed books or movies about warfare and avoided contact with men he had known during the war.

It is often men like our current president, who went to great lengths to avoid military service during the Vietnam War, who have a childish preoccupation with all things military.

DAVID HAYDEN, WILTON, CONN.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/opinion/trump-parade.html

[Marcuse]

8. *

[Nitram]

7. Potus and the VP are so incredibly juvenile. Our parade is bigger and bettter than yours!

[mpcamb]

9. Toady Mike refuse to stand for his hosts at the Olympics.

Shook hands with all but the North Koreans.
What a shit-heels move!
(But that's what your role is when you sign on to be Donnie-child's little dog.)

[ZannaA]

10. ಠ_ಠ

Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug

[Solly Mack]

11. LMAO

And there will be idiots quoting his remarks in earnest.