Oct 092006
Much of the media
was waving its arms in the air and practicing duck-and-cover maneuvers in the
wake of news that North Korea has conducted a successful nuclear test. While it’s not
likely that mushroom clouds will be blossoming over Asian cities anytime soon,
this development amounts to another failure of Bush’s Yippee-Ki-Yay approach to
foreign policy. Our refusal to directly negotiate with NK leaves us in a
weakened position. Military intervention is unlikely, given that most of our
forces are committed in Iraq. And sanctions are unlikely to do anything to an
economy that is already lying dead on the table. We can only hope that Kim
Jong-Il is a rational actor and that NK’s neighbors don’t overreact and start a
regional arms race.
was waving its arms in the air and practicing duck-and-cover maneuvers in the
wake of news that North Korea has conducted a successful nuclear test. While it’s not
likely that mushroom clouds will be blossoming over Asian cities anytime soon,
this development amounts to another failure of Bush’s Yippee-Ki-Yay approach to
foreign policy. Our refusal to directly negotiate with NK leaves us in a
weakened position. Military intervention is unlikely, given that most of our
forces are committed in Iraq. And sanctions are unlikely to do anything to an
economy that is already lying dead on the table. We can only hope that Kim
Jong-Il is a rational actor and that NK’s neighbors don’t overreact and start a
regional arms race.
We also need to
recognize that as long as nuclear arms are seen as the coin of status and power
in the international community, the club of nuclear states will only continue to
grow.
recognize that as long as nuclear arms are seen as the coin of status and power
in the international community, the club of nuclear states will only continue to
grow.
I agree with you and would add that military intervention in NK is unlikely given that Rev Sun Myung Moon has large biz interests there and is also a close family friend of the Bush family. That’s a wrap.
how quickly you on the left forget the clinton white house ignoring the arms build up in the 1990’s in north koria. madeleine albright ‘s visit , (or should i say butt kissing adventure), set u. s. foreign policy in regards to nuke stategy in motion back then. this is a cause and effect result of weakened, ineffective lame duck democratic leadership in the 90’s.