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To: Dale Baker who wrote (23110)	7/7/2006 10:24:07 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541579

Given how much Condi Rice travels and speaks with foreign leaders, you would be better off looking at what they are talking about and why it doesn't achieve the result you want, and what should be done differently. Hmm, I thought that was precisely what I was saying. She travels a great deal, talks with foreign leaders a great deal, and, no doubt, there are some, small, less than visible results. But I don't see large, visible things vis a vis Iran and North Korea. In Iran it looks to me as if they tried to stay away from working with other countries as long as possible but now have been backed into doing so because the military option is unavailable, at least best we can tell. And because they have misunderstood the role Russia and China wish to play. Well, either misunderstood or understood well enough, just played the hand badly. But, even with that unavailable, they have insisted on a non-negotiable condition which makes negotiations impossible. On North Korea, the Bush people have been in power now for 6 years and have, apparently, accomplished nothing. It's their problem. As I recall the various debates about what the Clinton folk did with North Korea, there is a defensible argument they did well. But that's largely irrelevant now. Six years is long enough to hold the Bush folk accountable.