My thoughts on the situation in North Korea:
- Never negotiate with a terrorist or a dictator. Britain's N. Chamberlain negotiated a "Peace for our time" treaty with Hitler in 1938, ceding him a big hunk of Czechoslovakia (which wasn't his to give) and then after taking over all of the Czech nation, Germany invaded Poland less than a year later, bringing on WW2. Superior force and threat of imminent and total elimination is all these puppet-masters understand.
- If Bill Clinton had let S. Milosevic run wild, what would Eastern Europe be like today?
- If H. Bush had allowed S. Hussein to keep Kuwait, how long before Saudi Arabia became a province of Iraq?
- Instead of strangling North Vietnam into submission in the 60's war, we negotiated a "dignified and peaceful resolution" with them. The communists now control all of Vietnam and sell us sweatshop products. R. Nixon sold us out via Chinese diplomacy.
- J. Kennedy was able to negotiate with N. Khrushchev concerning Cuba because the Soviets knew we held the trump card and were reluctantly willing to use it; the ability to destroy Russia.
- Kim Jong Il cares nothing for the people of North Korea or anywhere else; his only desire is for personal power and to be heard, revered, and feared in the international community. Many times we have sat at the negotiating table with him and his sainted father before him, and they always insist on more than a reasonable people are willing to give and they always manage to keep changing their wants and needs in the middle of the talks and if they do not get their way, they walk out.
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I just think we need to negoiate and the big stick is always there in case we need it. It seems that too often we talk with others but we do not listen.
I know what you mean, but we have been in some kind of negotiations with N. Korea since 1951, either directly or through another country's embassy. Blockading the ports and skies will do no good as the government doesn't care if its people starve.
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