<< Robert, regarding N. Korea, the moment that the administration learned that the agreement on nuclear materials had been violated, it should have conferred with S. Korea, Japan, China, and Russia (the neighbors) and secured agreement on action to remove the threat. >>
You've been to Disneyworld too many times. You paint China almost like an American state. All we have to do is confer with China, and China will no longer be an ally of North Korea, China will no longer be threatening it's neighbor, China will no longer be a ruthless dictatorship, and all will be happy.
How about Russia? Warm and fuzzy, stable friends of freedom and democracy?
<< It is easy to suggest that all we needed to do was use precision bombing to destroy the manufacturing capability and the missile launch sites, but doing that alone, without the blessing of S. Korea in particular, would be reckless. >>
Then don't suggest it as a solution.
<< The administration simply didn't do its homework on the best way to attack this threat (I think precision bombing is a good idea, but only with the consent of the neighbors). >>
I disagree. North Korea is a problem, but it is not our problem. If China, Russia, Japan don't mind the criminally insane leaders of North Korea threaten that portion of the world with Nuclear weapons, then why should we?
<< Now we have a country openly defying the U.N. on nuclear proliferation ... >>
The UN is inept, corrupt and irrelevant. The important power in the world is America, which represents freedom and democracy. I would hate to have American lives placed at the mercy of the bureaucratic, and hopelessly incompetent UN.
<< ... a country that insults N.Korea by calling it part of the "axis of evil" (an insult not designed to win friends or get agreements), >>
You think that making deals with the criminally insane is the best route to world peace? You would make Neville Chamberlain proud of you.
<< Acting like a bully to solve these problems doesn't work well, if at all, and it is the expensive way to proceed. >>
So..... you favor cowardice over resolve? You favor appeasement in the face of those who would destroy you? How long did you study Neville Chamberlain's book, "Appeasement at any Price"? <g>
<< As I have said on this thread many times, this administration has shown itself to lack the kind of skills for solving these problems. >>
Judging from the great successes that have been done, so far, by the Bush administration, in the war against terrorism, I'd say that their track record is much better than your simple, appeasement solution.
<< They just don't know how to run the government ... >>
You are a world leader, in your own mind. <g> |
