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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99331)	5/28/2003 4:55:20 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We did dilly-dally about building the new reactors, in large part because NK kept temporizing about the inspections they agreed to. I have to say, arguing that North Korea is somehow the victim here is probably the apotheosis of victimology. Edit: I do think the people of North Korea are victims, but the regime is the present world star at thugocracy and kleptocracy, not to mention mendacity.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99331)	5/28/2003 5:25:24 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Did you even bother to go to the link I provided? Or are you just shooting from the hip, after giving it 0.9 seconds of thought? The link I provided, goes, point by point, through everything we agreed to do in 1994, with a link to the original document. The fuel oil shipments were the one and only promise we kept. Every other promise was broken. The Bush Administration says, "there is no point in negotiating with __________ (insert current target regime here), negotiation equals appeasement, They always lie". The truth is, the 1994 agreement failed, and N. Korea will shortly have nukes, and there isn't a thing we can do about it now, and it's all because we failed to keep our promises, we were the untrustworthy negotiator. We did exactly what we now accuse our opponents of doing. One more example of the double standard, the way we think the rules never apply to us.