Credit for what, exactly? All that's been done is that photo op in Singapore.
That's all that has actually happened (as long as you discount, as he does, damage to relations with allies), but Trump is touting it as if Kim has already dismantled everything.
It did not "ma(k)e the world a safer place", and by asserting it Beinart is showing the same wishful thinking, lack of perceptiveness, dismissal of Democratic opposition as contrariness, and myopia that he had when he was one of the "liberal hawks" who supported Bush's invasion of Iraq.
This is another round of Pete-splaining how narrowly other people are seeing things, not noticing his own tunnel-vision.
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