While nothing good has yet been accomplished in his first 100 days, that nothingness seems to be happening in ultra-fast motion. It’s as though we’re seeing the trajectory of a failed presidency compressed into weeks.

So here we are, some 80-odd days in, with Trump already sending warships and threats at the world’s most obvious little bad guy, Kim Jong Un. He’s the obvious target for an ill-thought-through power play. Wait, what? Trump hasn’t thought it all the way through??? He never thinks anything all the way through. Of course, North Korea looks like a problem with a simple answer to Donald Donut-mouth. Every other problem has looked like that to him, too, until he bothers to listen to somebody who actually knows something for 10 minutes. And that usually comes after much damage has already been done.

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Do tough posturing and action ever work? Oh, sometimes they work. And sometime they leads straight to calamity. It helps to be aware of the probabilities.

Getting tougher on the Islamic State only led this week to killing 18 people fighting on our side. But who can be bothered with trifles? We didn’t kill them with gas; we used a good old-fashioned mis-aimed bomb. You can’t make an omelet, etc.

Maybe it’s time to deal with the Korean maniac with our own maniac. And maybe we might needlessly trigger an avoidable confrontation that will end up with a cauldron of death.