back when we had a smart and kind president who understood and wanted to maintain America’s position in the world, we’d have been helpful to both China and Japan in coping with and rebuilding from their typhoon-related destruction. And probably made a profit at it, and built up the kind of favor-bank that would be useful solving our North Korea problem.

but of course, nobody would expect such help from us now. Not when we’ve got a president who didn’t even want to be helpful to Puerto Rico.