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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (47068)	9/26/2002 8:08:40 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

President of the Conference on Disarmament to the United Nations, spent countless hours - days - weeks -months - and years negotiating that particular agreement. I'm not attempting to ignore the efforts of the actual negotiators on both sides. But negotiators are tasked with obtaining the best deal for their particular side.. And considering that N. Korea is on the brink of economic collapse, and desperate for relief, any threats to back out of these negotiations were accurately perceived as bluffs and bluster. So we had to "one up" them and display a bit of bluster of our own.. Bush's "axis of evil" speech was a signal to Pyongyang that the US was preparing to halt all negotiations and push the Koreans further to the brink. Thus, the negotiations are once more in progress, and the inspectors are returning to Iraq, both as the result of the US taking a VERY firm stance. We're negotiating from a position of strength in those two regions of the world. We shouldn't act like we're not, nor should we coddle the N. Koreans merely to permit the tyrants to "save face".. Just my opinion on that KC.. But once again, you make a good point that these treaties don't happen without the day to day hard-nosed negotiators finally finding a compromise. Hawk