Labeling a country with a formidable military a member of the "axis of evil" would in any book qualify with talk loudly (and carelessly), not softly.
NOBODY, NOBODY, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, disputes the fact that the countries so labeled are APPROPRIATELY labeled. Are YOU?
If the label is appropriate, how can you possibly consider it "talking loudly"? Bush was simply stating the facts, obvious facts, trying to make it more obvious to the world what we're dealing with when we take on terrorism.
Referring the matter to the IAEA and the UN and "we will deal with NK diplomatically" is carrying no stick of course. NK is undeterred, unafraid.
We've discussed the obvious hypocrisy in your remarks. However, what I see is simply a president being prudent. Because of a former administration's gross incompetence, NK now has nukes. It ought to open your eyes with respect to Iraq. Instead, you have your head buried in an extremist liberal dogma.
these men could easily let the situation get the better of them and really escalate the NK situation dangeraously (re: Rumsfeld's comments about multiple wars).
You are FUNNY -- so tied up in liberal views you can't carry on a sensible conversation. In once sentence you criticize the administration for "carrying no stick", and in the next you criticize Rumsfeld for making the size of the stick obvious (i.e., giving an honest answer to a reporter's question). Would you have had him lie, and say we can't handle it? |
