E.J. DIONNE, WASHINGTON POST: There are several tragedies here at once, one is that Tillerson seems to have some idea of this, so does Secretary of Defense Mattis. Tillerson has kind of undercut himself by putting a wrecking-ball to his own department. But the real tragedy here is not just that a president who has control of nuclear weapons shouldn't send out light tweets or make light statements like 'The Calm Before The Storm' like he is on his old TV show. It is that Americans used to be very united on North Korea... and what Trump does is, even on an issue where we were basically united as a country... he divides us, in the Huckabee interview, by laying all the blame for this on Barack Obama. As somebody said, Trump can live without friends, he can't live without enemies. When you have a difficult situation for the country, and a president whose first instinct is to divide us when we don't have to be, that puts us in a terrible position to deal with that every serious person in foreign policy acknowledges is a very difficult problem to solve.





