July 02, 2004


Lies and Politicians

Naw. Not. Never. North Korea is now getting some attention from the 1600 Crew.

Politically, however, the Bush administration is eager to show it is making progress in the North Korean crisis. ...
And now for the kicker. Politicians might be, well less than truthful.
It is common for presidents to make significant shifts in their foreign-policy approach during an election year, only to reverse course yet again afterward. President Ronald Reagan authorized peace talks with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in June 1984 -- but called them off after the election.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Helms-Burton Act, which authorized Americans to sue companies using appropriated property in Cuba, despite his long opposition -- and then waived key provisions after the election.

Seven days before the 1972 election, Richard Nixon's national security adviser Henry Kissinger declared that "peace is at hand" in Vietnam; by Christmas, Nixon had launched a massive bombing campaign.

Within the Bush administration, Powell has been a consistent advocate of trying to resolve the North Korean crisis through engaged diplomacy. Powell is expected to leave even if Bush is reelected, and other senior U.S. officials are deeply suspicious of the Pyongyang government and would prefer to isolate North Korea in hopes of fostering the regime's collapse.

Isolation, sanctions...things that are of you know, little use. Oh, wait, the North K's have actual WMD's and a standing army that's as mean as a pissed-off rattlesnake.

Funny how the PNAC never sought to overthrow that member of the Axis of Evil, isn't it? Ah, well...I guess that CheneyBurton figured it would be easier to make a buck in Iraq then North Korea, and quicker too. Don't they know politicians lie?
posted by Jo Fish on 07.02.04 at 07:54 PM





Comments:

they really don't want to go into north korea. its a real humanitarian nightmare. there is no profit in feeding starving people. though i hear north korea does have uranium mines and dick does love nuclear technology. hell, let's take em out. whats one more war.

 posted by: monkey on 07.02.04 at 11:05 PM [permalink]

Would do better to do preemptive trade with them, lift sanctions, unify the Koreas to be a viable leverage to China than demand Tai independence.

Turn the tables completely and the new Korea can have people who want nothing to do with Moon he'll spend more time there trying to keep his politicos in line than he will running a sizable portion of the smear machine against Dems.

Reverse triangular diplomacy.

And the trade sanction lift would provide new customers for the enrgy freed in Iraq via third party shippers (NATO anytone?) to keep the supposed WMD links from going on.It would also boom their postwar economy to speed recovery, keep us an agricommodity customer, and lower the world market for energy once again.

A lot of active duties would love being off that deployment... then we resume a base in Taiwan without the worry of ground invasion. So the Navy and Air Force whose former rankers form the majority of the neocon policy/lobby/advisory crews have an excuse to escalate via closer promitiy for defensive tactical and strategic anti-nuke stealth systems that Rummy's backers so badly want to prevent first stikes of a tactical deterrent force.

In fact the Rumsfail guy could be expendable in this model and go to the Hague where he belongs. I'll get a plaque to mount at gitmo in his honor, aWol and Cheney can christen it! We could reopen the whiskey bar at Billmon's comments and take a collection...


But that would just be using common sense, promoting Democracy and worker's rights along with unity and sovereignty across the board...

monkey is right sanctions starve the poor and while accomplishing political objectives. There are progressive ways to do so. There would be no double standard of sanctioning one country and supporting ones who agree but do not abide the same restrictions for which sanctions are emplaced...

But we need countries to bring up every 2 years and run political races over instead of solving this and focusing on social agenda...

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.03.04 at 12:31 AM [permalink]

Compassionate conservatism may also make a comeback for this November. Surprise, surprise.

 posted by: Shag from Brookline on 07.03.04 at 06:14 AM [permalink]

Bush put the ASS in compassionate...

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.04.04 at 10:54 PM [permalink]


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