Some Sensible Advice
In today's Washington Times, James Hackett has written one of the first sensible pieces explaining why North Korea launched the seven missiles last week.
His advice likewise is sound: The only real solution to North Korea's brinkmanship is to change the regime. That requires continued financial pressure, sanctions to cut off outside aid, leaning hard on China to cooperate, and strengthening missile defenses.
As the piece notes, Howard Dean has argued that the US should provide North Korea with the "food, fuel and recognition" that it's seeking. Why? Kim Jong Il has shown not the slightest inclination to abide by agreements he's made in the past; is there any legitimate reason to believe that he'd behave differently now? Obviously not -- and Dean's approach is typical of a wing of the Democratic party that wants nothing more than simply to pretend, as long as people are "talking," that threats don't truly exist.
That, of course, allows the day of reckoning to be deferred -- but makes it even uglier when it finally arrives.
His advice likewise is sound: The only real solution to North Korea's brinkmanship is to change the regime. That requires continued financial pressure, sanctions to cut off outside aid, leaning hard on China to cooperate, and strengthening missile defenses.
As the piece notes, Howard Dean has argued that the US should provide North Korea with the "food, fuel and recognition" that it's seeking. Why? Kim Jong Il has shown not the slightest inclination to abide by agreements he's made in the past; is there any legitimate reason to believe that he'd behave differently now? Obviously not -- and Dean's approach is typical of a wing of the Democratic party that wants nothing more than simply to pretend, as long as people are "talking," that threats don't truly exist.
That, of course, allows the day of reckoning to be deferred -- but makes it even uglier when it finally arrives.
7 Comments:
Carol, why are you reading the MSM? Isn't it but a repository of liberal, slanted, agenda-driven "news"? Or are you the authority who chooses what is true and relevant, like with the Bible?
I wish you'd make up your mind.
Duke-stir spills some nonsense.
dittohead encourages the Liebau family to go die in his own bizarre way.
But nothing on the merits.
I am shocked. Shocked!
Gang --
I'm not a heart surgeon, but I advocate heart surgery to be performed when it's needed.
I'm no fan of the MSM, any more than I am a fan of bugs on the windshield, but neither is an excuse to not pay attention to the world around us.
All that said, Jong should be a lot more worried about us than he is. (He may well be insane.)
And a party that gives Lieberman a cold shoulder but Jong a warm embrace should consider - I mean, think really, really hard about - the company they keep.
Carol, it seems someone else shares your unique sense of glee regarding the World Cup:
"...a number of Italian politicians and the French ambassador to Italy issued a strong rebuke to remarks made by Roberto Calderoli, the former minister of reform and a member of the right-wing Northern League party.
After the Cup victory he said that the Italians had vanquished a French team that was comprised of “Negroes, communists and Moslems.”"
A new Time magazine poll showed...
But do you think GWB cares a whit? Seriously, you've been observing this since Bush took office. Do you think he'll be swayed by a poll?
Hopefully this thread hasn't been abandoned.
The next question is:
"Given what you know about George W. Bush, what do you think is REALLY the quickest way for us to come home from Iraq?
Is Ditto extrapolating from polls again. His extrapolation skills have been documented to be ...
... lacking (I'll be kind).
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