Sunday Reflection: Shelves

“Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.” -- Finley Peter Dunne, "Mr. Dooley Says" (1910).

For diplomacy, you begin with careful preparations by experts and diplomats, then negotiate with a strategy, then (ideally) agree to terms and shake hands. The narcissistic sociopath in the White (Supremacist) House has everything backwards on North Korea. The Bungler-In-Chief hasn't built the library shelves yet.