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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (64212)	1/3/2003 12:15:33 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Also, every informed player I listen to tells me over and over that the North Koreans are crazy, they don't respond to either incentives or threats like normal people. So Krugman's chiding the Bush administration for not lining up the incentives just right is just another piece of partisanship. One way, not too open-minded, to deal with criticisms. Considering one's opponents as non-rational, children, etc. is, I would suspect, one of the great mistakes of foreign diplomacy. As for the contrast with the policies of the Clinton administration, it strikes me that K has it about right. The Clintons had a process in place to lower the level of conflict; Bush stopped that and started a confrontational scenario. Diplomacy as talking loudly but carrying a weak stick. To quote K.