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To: Dayuhan who wrote (108595)	7/28/2003 10:47:50 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

I suspect that recent events in Iraq have weakened our hand in those negotiations, but there's nothing to be done about that now. Maybe.. But actually I think it's really bringing the issue to a head where some kind of actual change is possible. The Chinese and Russians obviously hoped they could pressure Bush to concede and "pay that price".. But I suspect they have overplayed their hand and don't realize that Bush MIGHT just be willing to let the situation go over the brink.. It's the kind of "maverick" politics that seemed to benefit Reagan so well... Be unpredictable and unwilling to compromise on sound principles (such as not letting oneself be blackmailed), and it will be your opponents (or rivals) that pay a greater price than yourself. Again.. were this the mid-east, I would concur that we would not be willing to let it get this far and we would "pay the price". But N. Korea borders China and Russia, not the US. So it makes sense that they should not be permitted to force the US to bear this burden alone.. And the hollow argument that the US "pushed" Kim Jong Il into developing Nukes is silly since he's been working on them ever since 1995, at the same time we paid him hundreds of millions in bribes .. uh..err, foreign assistance. Hawk