Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (88339)	3/31/2003 2:07:06 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

> Blame Carter... Well, I blame Carter for many things but that is not one of them. You are going back way too far. Reagan and Bush41 were there too...back to Clinton: As I read it, Clinton actually considered bombing NK fascilities and was leaning that way. But in the final analysis, he decided to buy time by signing the agreement but really trying to subvert NK. You could try to justify this on "self interest" grounds (I think the joury is still out on that) but certainly not on moral grounds. > I don't feel the same compulsion to deal with tyrants like Kim Jong Il, or Saddam Hussein Quite to the contrary. It is in dealing with people like them that we can measure how honorable we really are. It is all too easy to be ethical with one's friends. But how you deal with those you do not like says more about you than about them. Credibility is not something that you really need with your allies; it is needed most when dealing with your enemies. ST