10/5/06

Diplomacy

From public remarks yesterday by Christopher R. Hill, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs:
“We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,” he said.

Mr. Hill did not suggest what the American response would be and gave no hint of an economic or military response. But he said of North Korea: “It can have a future or it can have these weapons. It cannot have both.” |NY Times|

I'm guessing that the plan is to have John Bolton smooth any ruffled feathers.

Seriously though, if you think that stopping North Korea's nuclear program is (contrary to appearances) a worthwhile project, what would make you think that naked threats are likely to accomplish that? The Bush Administration must know that the upshot of these existential threats will be to goad North Korea forward in their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

I'm honestly beginning to think that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, et al. are deliberately trying to start so many wars that the U.S. will have no choice but to regear our economy into a purely militaristic mode.

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