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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (305794)	10/9/2006 6:56:55 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574854

"They were indeed trying to circumvent the treaty" I never said any different. Bush, rightly, called them on it. Things went downhill after that. "True, if you're going to bluff, you should at least have some valuable cards in your hand." No kidding. "But I get the impression that you think Bush should have folded from the beginning." From where? He shouldn't have threatened without the will to carry it out. I am not sure what the best course would have been, but that certainly wasn't it. A military response would have been tricky to pull off without Seoul coming out of it doing a credible imitation of a lunar landscape.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (305794)	10/10/2006 12:06:51 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574854

> But I do know that setting up a situation where they decided to call Bush's bluff and Bush backed down didn't do anything to defuse the situation. It made it worse. True, if you're going to bluff, you should at least have some valuable cards in your hand. But I get the impression that you think Bush should have folded from the beginning. Why didn't Bush negotiate directly with him when he wanted to last fall? Instead Bush simply ignored him. How did that help anything?