http://trueslant.com/level/2009/05/25/poll-should-obama-keep-negotiating-with-north-korea-after-its-nuclear-test/ [Please go to 'Settings' to change your Tagline] Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:50:57 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://trueslant.com/level/2009/05/25/poll-should-obama-keep-negotiating-with-north-korea-after-its-nuclear-test/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Brian In NYC Mon, 25 May 2009 23:41:09 +0000 http://trueslant.com/level/?p=1081#comment-134 Michael from everything I've read today we really don't who is in charge at that moment in NK. If reports prove true that Kim has suffered a major stroke and one of his sons is in charge saber rattling is definitely not called for. Michael from everything I’ve read today we really don’t who is in charge at that moment in NK. If reports prove true that Kim has suffered a major stroke and one of his sons is in charge saber rattling is definitely not called for.

]]> http://trueslant.com/level/2009/05/25/poll-should-obama-keep-negotiating-with-north-korea-after-its-nuclear-test/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Scott Alexander Young Mon, 25 May 2009 10:00:29 +0000 http://trueslant.com/level/?p=1081#comment-133 Of course you keep negotiating, even if you've got the psy-ops gearing up to do away with the old man. What else are you going to do? Nuke 'em? Pile on more sanctions which won't effect Kim Jong-Il's ability to smuggle in as many copies of Team America as possible so that he can build bonfires with them, but will further impoverish his people. Plus ca change, plus ca c'est meme chose. Not sure that I agree that "President Bush and team’s pig-headed refusal to negotiate with North Korea actually made nuclear testing possible." I think it was the mechanisms of a brutal dictatorship that did that, but I don't think you can have a foreign policy where you just deal with nice people, more's the pity. Of course you keep negotiating, even if you’ve got the psy-ops gearing up to do away with the old man. What else are you going to do? Nuke ‘em? Pile on more sanctions which won’t effect Kim Jong-Il’s ability to smuggle in as many copies of Team America as possible so that he can build bonfires with them, but will further impoverish his people. Plus ca change, plus ca c’est meme chose. Not sure that I agree that “President Bush and team’s pig-headed refusal to negotiate with North Korea actually made nuclear testing possible.” I think it was the mechanisms of a brutal dictatorship that did that, but I don’t think you can have a foreign policy where you just deal with nice people, more’s the pity.

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