I would be remiss if I didn’t praise the Obama Administration for at least considering reversing one of President Bush’s stupid mistakes.
Now if only they’d get down to the serious business of not effing up absolutely everything else.
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I would be remiss if I didn’t praise the Obama Administration for at least considering reversing one of President Bush’s stupid mistakes.
Now if only they’d get down to the serious business of not effing up absolutely everything else.
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1. jon:I have a hard time figuring out what is and isn’t a stupid mistake involving North Korea. They’ve got a nutty regime, some big allies, easily some of the worst living conditions in the even slightly-modern world, a military designed to scare its Southern neighbor from a war of attrition that would likely be won by the more ruthless side, and it’s largely because they also have the bomb. The entire reason we didn’t clear the slate clean North of the DMZ is that we give a crap about the South Koreans.
Who knows what Bush was threatened with and what he was offered before, and who knows why Obama is only at the consideration stage of something that seems like a no-brainer? I sure don’t. There are few North Korea experts in the world, even in North Korea, apparently. But as far as criticism goes, that country provides me with few clues as toward what the right approach is to resolve our huge differences. If only there was a way to evacuate South Korea for a few decades so we could take care of things….
Jun 7, 2009 - 10:30 pm 2. McGehee:When it comes to why Bush didn’t get serious about North Korea, the first answer-candidate that comes to mind is China. I don’t think it was a matter of offer or threat, simply a matter of trusting his father’s views on the subject.
Jun 8, 2009 - 7:40 am 3. Veeshir:There are no good solutions to NoKo at all. I give all presidents the benefit of the doubt there, except St. Jimmeh, his trip in the 90s was a freaking disaster.
There are millions of people who have no idea how to live in anything but a totalitarian society.
They’ll be a couple generations recovering from that if it ever ends.
And I don’t think either China or SoKo are all that happy about the thought of that state failing.
China likes having a buffer state and SoKo couldn’t absorb that many basket cases.
Jun 8, 2009 - 2:37 pmNope, it’s a bad situation with no non-really-bad solution.
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