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To: JohnM who wrote (64219)	1/3/2003 12:39:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Considering one's opponents as non-rational, children, etc. is, I would suspect, one of the great mistakes of foreign diplomacy Even if they are crazy? Believing that everybody must be rational is a fine article of faith but a poor basis for real-world diplomacy. The South Koreans say the North Koreans are crazy. The Chinese say they are crazy. Their management of their own country has been mind-bogglingly inept, not to mention evil beyond measure. US Foreign policy experts tell me to think of North Korea as some kind of giant cult, not a country in the normal sense. Clintons had a process in place to lower the level of conflict; Bush stopped that and started a confrontational scenario Appeasement processes often do lower the level of conflict, in the short term. Their long-term consequences (talk about perverse incentives!) leave something to be desired, however.

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