But forgets this:
Posted on 10/11/2006 6:01:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 11, 2006 - 08:45.
To judge by its political cartoon of this morning, the Boston Globe apparently believes that if only the Bush administration had engaged in direct talks with North Korea, it could have prevented Kim from building his bomb.
Let's leave aside the fact that the Bush administration has been talking to North Korea. Indeed, the president was proceeding in precisely the way the MSM usually implores him to do - multilaterally, via the Six Party talks.
Isn't the Globe forgetting a teeny little thing? That the Clinton administration famously engaged in direct talks with Kim - even made him the toast of the town, you might say. And how did North Korea respond? By building a bomb.
But forgets this:
Boston Globe/NewsBusters l'chayim-ping to Today show list.
He should've included the MSM.
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Yet the guy insisted on the necessity for "diplomacy"! I guess you have to be a lib to understand . . .
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| The Globe cartoon fails to mention that the "KABOOM" didn't happen. Enterprising American children with Black Cat firecrackers have created a more interesting display. |
"And how did North Korea respond? By building a bomb."
Oh, but a Dem pundit on Fox yesterday, specifically declared that NK was docile with Clinton, and they only started going nuclear after Bush's failed policy.
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| Yesterday Sandy Berger was on Fox trying to spin this very hard. He claimed five or six times that North Korea did not enrich any "plutonium" during the Clinton years. He cleverly failed to mention that he enriched enough "uranium" during the Clinton years to build the bombs that apparently don't work. The Mk53 nuke at 9MT was one of the largest the United States ever built. It was in service until the late 1980s and is still one of the few models that we keep in our arsenal. It uses uranium not plutonium. I was disappointed that Shep/Gibson/Cavuto (I don't remember which show he was on) didn't challenge him to his face. |
Maybe they should ban SK products as a reminder we don't need any Stockholm Syndrome Sufferers in this deal.
what the hell is FOX News doing having Sandy Berger on???? At least tell me their was an opposition guest on to refute Berger.
Yesterday Condi Rice explained to Brit so clearly why the US will not engage in one-on-one talks with North Korea. She said NK can't so easily renig (sp) on talks that include China and South Korea, they don't want to alienate China and South Korea by lying to them in talks. But lying to just the US doesn't bother them at all.
Rice also explained that the US does communicate with NK under the auspices of the unilateral talks that include China, South Korea and Japan, a fact never mentioned by Bush critics.
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| what the hell is FOX News doing having Sandy Berger on???? At least tell me their was an opposition guest on to refute Berger. No opposition guest in the normal "cat fight" format, but Frank Gaffney, Jr. (Assistant Sec. of Defense to Reagan) was on after him. He failed to mention the word parsing of Berger, but did manage to make a reasonable defense of Bush and damnation of Clinton's policy. |
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| But lying to just the US doesn't bother them at all. That was the most significant new bit of information I've learned about our policy towards N. Korea in quite a while. I never thought of it before and it makes perfect sense. It's one of those points that are simply impossible to argue against. |
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