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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (745204)	7/13/2006 10:53:06 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"no public evidence yet that DIPLOMACY is 'working' (i.e., achieving our goals...), but I DO AGREE with you about certain extra-diplomatic actions that are having beneficial effects:" Some people talk about diplomacy at the end of a gun. Diplomacy takes many forms. Shutting down NK's primary source of foreign exchange because it was illegal is a form of diplomacy. Bullies and toughs primarily growl and attack when they see weakness (1998) and when they are feeling cornered (2006). I have no concrete evidence of it, but I suspect that NK is feeling cornered. If the rest of the world would stop propping them up, NK would collapse very rapidly. They might take out a few SKers, but any conflict with NK will probably cause too many SK casualties.