Dermot, you complain that "Our U.S. senators need to be a check on the power of the president..."  and that the Senate needs to confirm more staff at the State Department.  Those two actions, you imply, will completely solve this current crisis with North Korea.  

So if Murkowski and Sullivan just stated publicly that President Trump should use more measured language, President Trump would automatically become a statesman?  If the State Department had more Assistant and Under Secretaries, the likelihood that President Trump would be stopped from ordering a nuclear strike would disappear and our negotiations with Kim Jong-un would be successful?

Sheesh, Dermot.  What alternative reality are you occupying?