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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (1821)	1/6/2003 8:49:19 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Most uncivil of you zonder. Is it a tough day? You did notice I said "free food" didn't you? And don't forget, the AGREEMENT between the Clinton Administration and North Korea was that THEY keep the 1994 agreement. No nukes or anything else to do with nukes. North Korea said they broke the agreement. Why should the US keep any agreement if the one they made is broken?

To: zonder who wrote (1821)	1/6/2003 8:58:51 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Maybe. Still, this is not a comment on how acceptable (or not) a foreign policy decision it is to withhold food from a population, thereby risking their starvation. Zonder... if someone chooses to feed their dogs instead of their children, do we have a responsibility to provide those children their meals?? Or do we take those children out of that household and put them into state custody?? Obviously international politics are not that simple, but they aren't that complicated either... It's pretty easy to make it known that the reason N. Koreans are starving is because Kim Jong Il prefers to feed a million man army of unproductive soldiers, than those who produce what little wealth the country creates. It's not fair.. but maybe, just maybe, we'd be prolonging the suffering of the N. Korean people by providing this food aid through the NK government.. We should announce that the UN will be more than happy to set up food distribution centers in N. Korea to feed the entire population, to be handed out by UN personnel, not the N. Korean government... Blare it over every VOA Korean language radio in the area.. And if they don't have radios, surreptitiously drop them over the population centers with the primary channel set to VOA.. That sounds like one HELL of a great mission for US stealth bombers to undertake... Dropping radios... Hawk