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To: PROLIFE who wrote (17681)	2/13/2007 10:40:40 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71588

and here i thought the 9/11 terrorist attack happened on clueless george's watch

To: PROLIFE who wrote (17681)	2/13/2007 12:12:16 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

gw the enabler "The North Korea Deal Stinks [Andy McCarthy] Don't take my word for it. Take John Bolton's. As the Washington Post reports this morning: "This is a very bad deal," former U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton told CNN. "It contradicts fundamental premises of the president's policy he's been following for the past six years. And second, it makes the administration look very weak at a time in Iraq . . . when it needs to look strong." When I mentioned the North Korea negotiations here over the weekend, there was some hope that we were on the verge of a Libya-type breakthrough — where the Norks would not only pledge to give up their nuclear aspirations but also surrender whatever they've actually developed to this point. Instead, it looks like this deal is 1994 all over again: We make energy aid and other concessions to them in exchange for their mere promise to take initial steps toward denuclearization. You'll hear a lot of chatter about how, no, no, we are requiring concrete steps and the concessions will be conditioned on those steps actually being taken. Sure. How can there be any other step, or any aid, absent, at the very least, North Korea coughing up what it has built in the dozen-plus years since it violated the last deal in which we naively accepted its pledges? And if we're desperate enough to have this deal to agree to these terms, why should anyone believe we'd really blow up the deal when North Korea, having taken our measure yet again, inevitably cheats? We are entering a very dangerous and depressing phase: making deals the principal accomplishment of which is the demonstration that we're not unilateralist cowboys — diplomacy celebrated for its own sake rather than because it actually, materially furthers American interests. It may make the Europeans happy and make our diplomats' dealings with their counterparts more pleasant; it doesn't make us any safer or advance our interests."