OK, since N.Korea now has nukes, why not make friends with them instead

[wholetruth00]

of enemies and give them no reason to use the nukes?

[Tennessee Gal]

1. That would be to logical for Bush.

He is a bullying simpleton.

[pretzel4gore]

2. butt butt, you doan unnerstand!

NK serves bush's scheme du jour, whatever the hell that might be - you can be certain it cost some poor hapless innocents spmewhere something! and that's the bush motif, writ plain.....humanity, to the bushviks, is to be measured by the gap between the pig and the non pig, and the biggah the gap the bettah! NK serves to demonise contemplation, thinking TOO MUCH.....to create an anvil for the ole righteous hammer, and that satisfies the precious bushevik juices which otherwise are left bereft.....
in plain english, NK gives bush another excuse to be a goof and continue to hog all the good things for the goofery - liberalism is anything that defies the idea.
this lesson cost 5k dollars. pay at the door.....
perfessor p4gore

[ovidsen]

3. They don't want to talk.

Really, they don't. Kim Jong Il has used the fear weapon to subdue and placate his people in ways the BushBots can only dream about:

Where Are You, Beloved General (Mother Jones - May/June 2003)>

As one of the first Western journalists allowed in since North Korea's latest nuclear crisis with the United States began last fall, I experience firsthand the paranoia that marks everyday life for North Koreans. For seven days, I am watched, followed, and fed propaganda. From doctors to parsons, everyone I am introduced to -- and I have no choice about whom I meet -- parrots the same line: hatred of the Americans, matched only by their love of the "Great Leader," Kim Jong Il.

Fear is how Kim stays in power. He learned that from Dad. He's not giving it up for anyone. He talked with Clinton a decade ago either in a moment of weakness, or just to buy time. He's not out to conquer the world, or even out to nuke his neighbors.

It's all about the fear.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. ...maybe because Kim's a crazy, repressive asshole?

We should certainly talk to them. We should even offer humanitarian assistance. But, I wouldn't want to consider NK a "friend."

Your question reminds of that stupid Zucker-produced video showing Madeline Albright drinking champagne with Kim...

[razors edge]

5. Never negotiate out of fear,

but never fear to negotiate.

I once heard a wise man say that.

[razors edge]

6. self delete

wrong thread