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Originally Posted by MaggieL
It's not *his* bread and butter...he doesn't have any. You just want to pay off another blackmailer. The "Danegeld and the Dane" all over again...you seem to have a habit of spending other people's money on the undeserving poor very freely.
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MaggieL is, as usual, parrotting the official White House policy. Can't help wondering do you have an opinion of your own?
Kim wants bilateral negotiations and a non agression pact for which he would drop his nukluar program. The situation can be solved within weeks. The whole world travels on that road. And the game can be played--has been played, as the Clinton administration showed. But, as with Iran, common sense is in short supply with the Bush Guvmint, especially when a bully like John Bolton is doing the talks. The blackmailer did exactly what he predicted without any response of Bush. Bush unwillingness to negotiate is not a virtue, is a blunder of the first kind. What choice does he have? Another war is unthinkable with the current situation in Iraq and the possibillity of a SKorea massacre.
But incapable of executing even the basics of international diplomacy, the Bushites succeeded in letting the NKorea's situation getting out of hand. Also because of being fully tied up with a country that not even did possessed WMD's.