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Victor Davis Hanson on the North Korea Crisis and the Ongoing Problem with Never-Trumpers<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By The Editors
\nAugust 11, 2017
\nAmerican Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson returned to the \u201cSeth and Chris Show\u201d to discuss how North Korea became a crisis, what China\u2019s role is, how the United States can reassert itself in Asia, and why so many movement conservatives have become estranged from each other over President Trump. The complete transcript is below.<\/p>\n

Seth Leibsohn:<\/strong> We are delighted to welcome back to the show Professor Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow in residence in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution, contributor to American Greatness<\/i>, and military historian. Nonpareil Professor Hanson, thank you for joining us again.<\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson:<\/strong>Thank you for having me.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>Professor, it\u2019s an interesting thing when you\u2019re on this side of the business in radio. When you look for an area or an issue and you need to get an expert. You want to talk to experts. It\u2019s surprising how few North Korea experts there are in America. And it dawned on me, you know, something Irving Kristol once said, foreign policy isn\u2019t that hard. You just need to know right and wrong. So, I thought I\u2019d go to a military historian such as yourself, and help us unwind how we got here and where you think we rationally can go.<\/p>\n

Events have developed, at least rhetorically, they\u2019ve heated up quite a bit over the last 48 hours. But the truth is, we\u2019re blaming a thunderclap when the clouds have been darkening and coming for some time.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>Yeah. I think it\u2019s been, the idea that each administration understood that if they said the right thing, that is, the right appeasing thing, and they offered enough money and they placed their trust in China, that they could get through four or eight years without a nuclear weapon going off. Or if it did, it happened in 2006, they could contextualize it.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what Bill Clinton, who is the worst offender to be fair, and then George W. Bush and Obama did. So. You put it all together, it\u2019s 24 years. And that gave them enough time to develop a strategic threat. It was diabolical and evil, but it was, there was a brilliance about [North Korea\u2019s] strategy because 30 million people that are in a failed state suddenly have the world\u2019s attention. They\u2019re shaking down the world for billions of dollars the last three decades.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve bifurcated U.S. strategy for the first time in 70 years, because our interests are now not identical with South Korea\u2019s. Because of, you know, in 45 minutes you can blow up Facebook and Google and Apple and a million people who live around them. And that means that we have some other interest other than Seoul, South Korea. In the old days, we would say to Seoul, you\u2019re welcome to a sunshine policy. You\u2019re welcome to talk to them. Do what you have to do, because you\u2019re on the front lines. Now we\u2019re saying to them, we\u2019re both on the front lines, so be careful what you do because it affects us as well. That was something that North Korea was able to achieve.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve never really looked at China. We\u2019ve always said, we\u2019ve had this establishment in foreign policy that\u2019s always said, \u201cIt\u2019s not China\u2019s interest,\u201d fill in the blank. It\u2019s always been in China\u2019s interest, because it ties down U.S. assets. It makes us angry, upset, we invest blood and treasure.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> I have to tell you, I\u2019ve always thought we were kidding ourselves and that it was a bad joke when people said, well, North Korea\u2019s, you know, militarism is not in China\u2019s interest. It just always sounded like a bad joke to me.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> Yeah. It\u2019s always been in their interest, and they\u2019ve gotten a lot out of it. And I think it\u2019s now incumbent to make them pay. We need to tell them, you know, we have to use every card. India\u2019s in a dispute with China in the Himalayas. I don\u2019t know why we just cut Russia completely off. I know that Putin\u2019s a thug and a killer, but we could have triangulated with Russia. As we did in the old days. To make China unsure of what our relationship is with the largest nuclear power in the world.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re gonna have to raise the nuclear card with South Korea and Japan. We need to get a very sophisticated missile defense from the Philippines to Australia to Taiwan. Not South Korea to Japan, not only to deter North Korea, but at a level that would deter China and take away their first-strike threat.<\/p>\n

I work at a university where, when I go in the elevator up to my office, every day there\u2019s 10 to 20 people from, you know, China. They\u2019re not Chinese Americans, they\u2019re not green card holders. They\u2019re visitors. And they\u2019re here because they\u2019re trying to lobby and get their children into Stanford and they\u2019re looking at expensive properties in Silicon Valley. And we need to tell them, if you don\u2019t do something, you\u2019re all gone. No more Cal Tech foreign students. No more Stanford, no more Berkeley, no empty mansions in Beverly Hills, no houses in the Seattle suburbs. Gone. Get out.<\/p>\n

All of that seems extreme, but it\u2019s very mild in comparison with living with a nuclear weapon pointed at Seattle or San Diego. And notice how the Left has said, that well, this is sort of like Mao in the 1960s, and we lived with him, so let\u2019s just get used to it. And, we\u2019ve got a lot of, make some tough decisions coming very quickly.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> It\u2019s not. Neither is it as extreme, Professor Hanson, as some of the other things that people have been talking about over the past few days. You know, the idea of a conventional war, the idea of taking Donald Trump\u2019s words to their extreme conclusion, you know, \u201cfire and fury.\u201d As some said, that could only mean an atomic or a nuclear attack. What you propose is not anywhere near that level of extremism. That having been said, if we don\u2019t have the will to act like that, on our own shores, you know.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how quickly we can move on missile defense. I think that that is a sad, sad tale of willful neglect that has left us in the position we\u2019re in now. And by us, I mean California, Alaska, Hawaii, for that matter, Guam. And the rest of the civilized world. That\u2019s something that could have been done in three years with something like 30 billion dollars. And I hope we do it now, and quickly.<\/p>\n

But what are the options? If we look at something militarily. They\u2019re not good, but they can\u2019t be taken off the table of our imagination.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>No, not off the table.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>No.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>Before I answer that, just remember that our president in a hot-mic conversation, \u201cI\u2019ll be flexible with Vladimir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>Correct.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>I mean on missile defense. He used the words missile defense.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> He used them in a different context, but the technology did not improve under his administration. And everything he said on that hot-mic became true. We \u2026 Russia behaved in 2012 and did not act like it does now until after Obama was reelected. Of course, if Trump had said something like that, we would have Robert Mueller with his indictment for collusion.<\/p>\n

But nevertheless . . .<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>\u00a0Well, hold that thought. I mean, before nevertheless. That\u2019s kind of an interesting thing about you know, the wave of thought right now is that Russia interfered in our elections. Here you had Obama directly interfering with Russia on our elections. It\u2019s kind of an interesting thing to think about for a moment.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> Yeah. He also, remember, interfered in the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Yes, of course.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> And he interfered in the Macron election and, got on TV and said, \u201cDo not vote Le Pen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> And, of course, the Israeli vote.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> In the 2015 Israeli vote, he actually sent agents, our operatives, to go over there and try to defeat Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>But I mean, we can go . . . we can, I suppose the idea is that if you were to go after the [apparatus] in the way that we couldn\u2019t do with Saddam, we tried it. But we would send bunker-busters after, I don\u2019t know, 10 or 15 of these big compounds, we would have to go after the conventional artillery sites. There\u2019s up to maybe 8,000 of them. And . . . \u00a0we would have to go over the nuclear sites. So you know, and we\u2019d have to do that, I think, if we were gonna preempt without nuclear weapons, and we\u2019re not in the same situation that we were eight years ago as far as our capabilities that we . . .<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> . . . Right, once upon a time the thinking was, we could do something along the lines of what Israel did with Osirak, but we\u2019re not in that position anymore, and the fallout would probably be too, well not too great, maybe too great, but also greater than anything that could have been contemplated back then.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>Yeah. And, I think that that it\u2019s possible, and people are advocating that, but we would have to rely on help. Probably from the Japanese, South Koreans, and I don\u2019t think we should count on any of our Europeans. But we need to find ways, first of all, we have about eight different steps as I said, that we could employ immediately and graduate them and escalate them, as far as China\u2019s concerned. Because all the technology, all the capital, all the financing, came from China. And North Korea couldn\u2019t have done anything. They can\u2019t do anything without China. China knew it, they understood that they had a pit bull on their leash, and they cut it off to aggravate us.<\/p>\n

And we know that if South Korea was under a dictatorship like it was in the \u201950s and they had nuclear weapons and they were saying, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna take out Beijing on Monday, and Shanghai on Tuesday,\u201d China would invade. They would do something. Or they would attack us, or they would yell at us for allowing that to happen. So they know what they\u2019re doing, and I think to be frank, I don\u2019t want to scapegoat the Obama administration too much, but over eight years of fake step-over lines, fake deadlines, fake red lines, getting out of Iraq, ISIS, the Libya fiasco, Putin invited into the Middle East. All that put together created a climate of appeasement without any deterrent. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking . . .<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Yeah I know. That\u2019s a sad tale of one big toxic confluence. I said yesterday, and I don\u2019t know if you would agree, maybe we can answer it on the other side of the break because we\u2019re heading into one right now, professor. I said yesterday, I think, you know, administrations often are, you know, thrown off their agenda and defined by a surprise foreign policy problem or international relations problem they did not foresee. Recent history testifies to that.<\/p>\n

I think in some respects the Trump presidency will be judged on North Korea. Didn\u2019t ask for it, but the war may have come. Can you stay with us one more segment? We\u2019ll address that on the other side.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> Yes, yeah.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Victor Davis Hanson, from Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution. We\u2019ll be right back.<\/p>\n

Delighted to welcome back Professor Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University talking about North Korea. Taking a broader view. Professor Hanson, I was struck in Donald Rumsfeld\u2019s autobiography. He says when Dick Cheney held, was having his confirmation hearings for secretary of defense in the first H.W. Bush administration, he received zero questions on Iraq. And that when he, Don Rumsfeld, was getting his confirmation hearings, in, I suppose, 2001, he received no questions on Afghanistan. Two international issues that ended up defining both presidencies. Irrespective of whether anyone like Mattis or Tillerson was asked about North Korea, it has been my view for some time that North Korea will be the international story that defines the Trump presidency. There\u2019s no stake in it, but do you think that that\u2019s a possibility? I mean, the stakes really, at this point, seem to be as high as we could get.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> It\u2019s gonna work out to Trump\u2019s advantage, because while there\u2019s this controversy over McMaster being supposedly too accommodating to former Obama people, all of these controversies deal with the Middle East. Iran . . .<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>. . . and radical Islam. But anybody who knows him and Mattis realizes that Obama got rid of Mattis because he was too tough on questions that we\u2019re talking about right now, he felt. And the same thing, McMaster was stymied, never got to four stars, for the same reason. And when you put both those guys, and you add Kelly and I think that Tillerson\u2019s probably in the same boat, and Nikki Haley, you\u2019ve got a really PR wise, experience wise, militarily, you\u2019ve got three lieutenant, full generals and I think we\u2019re in a good position, because I think they are going to be, in this particular, this is where we need people that believe in deterrence, and they understand that you can\u2019t kick the can down anymore. And that this Left-wing \u2026<\/p>\n

Mark Bowden wrote an article the other day in The Atlantic<\/i> saying how we could live with these nukes pointed at us. Not good, but they\u2019re not an existential threat. And so you have a movement now, on the Left and the man, the foreign policy establishment, to accept this quid pro. And if we do that, of course, China sees that as weakness and goes around to all our allies from Australia to the Philippines and says, \u201cLook, you know, the United States is in decline. We\u2019re ascendant. We pushed them around. We have a nut plant that\u2019s pointing . . . \u00a0You really want to be with people like that?\u201d<\/p>\n

And just the opposite will happen, if we can solve the crisis. China, at some point, we\u2019ve gotta make it in their interest. It\u2019s cost effective for them, so far, to the present crisis. But at some point, there are carrots and sticks. There\u2019s also carrot, we could say, you know, you\u2019re gonna come off pretty well in the world community if you squash North Korea. You\u2019ll be a player. Not that that is a big incentive, but it\u2019s some incentive, and if we have a lot of sticks as well, I think that we could pressure them.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>I have [to] get your take. You write, prodigiously and prolifically. I have been somewhat offended by a few Republicans and even more Democrats statements over the last 24-, 48-hours blaming Donald Trump for his rhetoric. For having ratcheted up this crisis. It started with John McCain, it\u2019s now been echoed and aped by Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n

The message, you know, I would put out, is it\u2019s not the rhetoric or actions of Donald Trump that have brought us to this crisis. It is the actions of tyrants and, if there is a history lesson in this world that bears repeating, it\u2019s that when tyrants show you who they are, believe them. And too many people haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>By the same token, it\u2019s the rhetoric of Barack Obama that was empty. We take, and he said things as you remember, in the North Korean matters. There\u2019ll be severe consequences if this would happen. If they break the international community will unite, except that it was empty rhetoric. It\u2019s a lot more dangerous.<\/p>\n

And then we have to also remember that Bill Clinton said that if North Korea were to go down that path, it would end the regime as we knew it. James Mattis said the same thing the other day. So people. . . William Perry, remember, before his latest incarnation, had said that we had to take out the missiles on the launch pads immediately in a preemptive strike. So there\u2019s been a lot of people who\u2019ve said far more inflammatory things, and they were in positions of power. President, secretary of defense, etc.<\/p>\n

But Trump is in a situation now where he\u2019s iconic of everything the Left and the Republican NeverTrump people hate. So they\u2019re going to give him no margin of error. And, you\u2019d think they would unite in a crisis like this, but Lindsay Graham, John McCain, all those that . . . \u00a0Bill Kristol, that establishment, hates Trump with a visceral hatred. For a lot of reasons that transcend . . .<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> It\u2019s sort of interesting that they would be the first to decry his rhetoric. Somewhat militaristic rhetoric. Given some of theirs.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> I deal with them a lot, at the Hoover Institute \u2026<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> And at National Review<\/i>. And if you say, who, just say, President X has [reduced] immigration by 75 percent. President X has broken the world energy market and . . . \u00a0emasculated OPEC and the Russians. President X has deregulated the state. President X got 2.6 economic growth, stock market, unemployment.<\/p>\n

And then they look at you and they say, \u201cWhat\u2019s your point?\u201d And I said, \u201cIf it was anybody but Trump, you would be for all this, because you can\u2019t find any particular initiative that you are against. His federal judicial appointments, whatever. But you don\u2019t like him, the person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s vulgar. He\u2019s no more vulgar than other people have been, but there\u2019s something about him that represents to you, his voice, his mannerisms, his occasional vulgarity, his \u2026 all of his flaws, they only focus on that because it represents an affront to their class culture.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> I worry sometimes, Victor, that they\u2019re a little bit, not a little bit, in some cases quite overtly, rooting for failure. A very dangerous and terrible place to be in.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> Well they\u2019ve . . . once they took that position, and they doubled down regardless of the issue, there was only one way out. That was, \u201cI told you so.\u201d And I told you so can only happen if he\u2019s removed from office, or quits, or doesn\u2019t run again, or you know, anything. But any other thing, even if he survives or much less if he were successful, it\u2019s the refutation of everything they warned about. He wouldn\u2019t be conservative, he wouldn\u2019t be successful. He would have lousy appointments. He\u2019d appoint his sister to the supreme . . . All that stuff didn\u2019t happen, and now they\u2019re sort of discredited and they\u2019re looking for an escape hatch, and the escape hatch is Donald Trump\u2019s failure. No matter what the issue.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a big wake-up call. I\u2019m 63, I\u2019ve known these guys for 30 years, some of them. And, you kind of get estranged from them. You don\u2019t want it to be personal, but these people that I didn\u2019t really know, you know what I mean? I thought I knew them, but when I read what they write every day, they\u2019re unhinged. And I don\u2019t see how they\u2019re ever going to come back to the Republican party, and if they think they can impeach or get rid of Trump and they\u2019re gonna save the Republican party, they don\u2019t realize that Trump is the \u2026 he\u2019s consequence, he\u2019s not a catalyst. He\u2019s a reflection of a new movement. Of people who were sick of them. And they can\u2019t win without that core. Blue state, blue wall group. And they\u2019re never gonna get it back with John Kasich or John McCain or any of those people.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> Yeah, I think they\u2019re missing it. And I think they\u2019re missing a movement they were part and parcel of, more importantly. And sadly, I think they\u2019re missing America. They\u2019re missing something big in this country. They\u2019re missing this country, what\u2019s going on in it.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>Yeah, I think so. They have a visceral either dislike of people in rural Ohio or the San Joaquin Valley or . . .<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>It\u2019s a terribly sad thing to say. What else could one conclude? Victor, I wanted to be sensitive to your time, and thank you for coming on.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> Thank you for having me.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> So quickly, really appreciate all your work and you\u2019ve got a real star. I\u2019ve worked with her for years and years. In your research assistant, Megan Ring. She\u2019s just great. I wanted to do a shout-out to her. I\u2019ve worked with her for a number of years. You\u2019ve . . .<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>She\u2019s very good.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got great people, Victor.<\/p>\n

Hanson: <\/strong>Thank you.<\/p>\n

Leibsohn: <\/strong>And you are good people. Thank you for joining us.<\/p>\n

Hanson:<\/strong> OK.<\/p>\n

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