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To: i-node who wrote (386237)	5/25/2008 1:50:25 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

David, > Clinton administration officials have admitted privately that they agreed to the '94 plan solely because they believed NK would collapse before the LWR project was completed. A Clinton crapshoot gone wrong. I don't remember Clinton saying that, but his administration clearly dragged their feet. This while Clinton claimed credit for the warming of North-South relations. Of course, Clinton wasn't stupid, since he knew that the LWR project was a bad idea from the beginning. But the deal represented a big political win for him. "Image is everything." Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (386237)	5/25/2008 4:16:13 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

"It was a perfect example of appeasement" And the Bush deal isn't appeasement because... Why exactly? Any deal involving arms reduction can be seen as appeasement. So throwing the 'a' word around is just a smokescreen. "And, as appeasement invariably does, it resulted in NK continuing to do exactly what they were going to do in the first place" Developing plutonium bombs? How so? "Clinton administration officials have admitted privately that they agreed to the '94 plan solely because they believed NK would collapse before the LWR project was completed. A Clinton crapshoot gone wrong. " I'd have to see a link about that. "The deal was incompetent from the outset. " In what way? I dunno, your objection seems to be that you didn't like it but can't really put your finger on the reason. It did what it was supposed to do. It stopped NK from developing plutonium bombs.