The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Heard
“Our interest is a stable North Korea.”
They sell uranium to Libya, sell missiles to Iran and Syria, renounce or violate every agreement they make, kill “impure” babies, gas kids, put the handicapped in concentration camps, and intentionally starve millions of their people. And we want them to be able to go on doing that? My idea of our interests obviously differs from Bill Richardson’s. The North Koreans have fooled him so many times, he’s obviously beyond any hope of ever realizing it.
Afterthought: This is an especially odd thing to say in light of Kim Jong Il’s announcement that he’ll return to the six-party talks. If you’re Kim Jong Il and you hear this, why should you even show up now?
The translation of that statement, into plain english, is this:
“We really don’t want to bother dealing with change in North Korea”.
The corollary is: “We’re going to leave managing any such change to the Chinese and South Koreans”.
“I believe that foreign policy is a prerogative of the president,” the governor said. “But there will be … ”
Ya gotta wonder why they even start talking when there is a denial of the initial premise in the succeeding clause.
Closet South Korean.
Then again, Yasser Arafat remains in “stable condition” 2 years after his death (to paraphrase opinion journal). I would welcome that kind of stability for the DPRK.