Search Results for “Obama not ready”

December 21, 2007

U-Tubed, Part 2

[Part 1] An honest appraisal of this new discovery means that those of us who are skeptical of AF 2.0 should grudgingly admit that it has produced at least one significant intelligence windfall, even if it was due to a North Korean oversight. Since that oversight will probably land a few people in front of firing squads, AF 2.0 proponents should at least draw the obvious conclusions to which this new intelligence leads. It seems difficult to deny that AF...

Diplomacy/Proliferation/Six-Party Talks

North Korea F.A.Q.

Why blog about North Korea? North Korea’s nuclear program and the diplomacy that has attempted to end it for decades are widely covered in the media, but the media has done a poor job reporting the wider North Korea story: its people and their suffering, the society in which they live, and what these things say about the failure of the international community to respond to a grave humanitarian crisis. Those missing pieces of the story are the pieces that...

Comments: 73

August 14, 2007

For Whom Do They Speak?

It’s not assured that the South Korean public will see President Roh’s going-out-of-business summit for what it is, but if it does not, it won’t be because South Koreans didn’t hear from enough cooler heads about it. Richardson presents a broad sampling of reaction from the (mostly conservative) Korean papers that dominate their country’s market. Most share a skeptical view and agree on that this is an obvious, cynical election-year ploy. There isn’t anything Roh is proposing to do in...

Appeasement/Diplomacy

August 4, 2007

Beyond the Drum Circle: Stopping Genocide in the Real World

There is within us some hidden power, mysterious and secret, which keeps us going, keeps us alive, despite the natural law. If we cannot live on what is permitted, we live on what is forbidden. That is no disgrace for us. What is permitted is no more than an agreement, and what is forbidden derives from the same agreement. If we do not accept the agreement, it is not binding on us. And particularly where this forbidden and permitted comes...

"United" Nations/Human Rights/U.S. Law

August 2, 2007

Double Extortion

Yesterday’s report that a hostage rescue operation was underway in Afghanistan turned out to be premature, but spin operations in Seoul are sharply accelerating. In a South Korean election year, it couldn’t be more predicatable that its unpopular and desperate leftist government, far-left “civic” groups, and certain media are looking for a way to make the Taliban’s kidnapping and murder of 23 Korean hostages America’s fault. It remains to be seen whether the greater South Korean public will buy this....

An Alliance?/Anti-Americanism/Terrorism/Iraq

January 31, 2006

SOTU Commentary ‘06

On North Korea, President Bush said very little: “The demands of justice require their freedom as well [specifically naming the people of North Korea, Syria, Burma, and Zimbabwe, among others].” The rhetoric was no more soaring, and certainly no more specific, than anything I’ve heard him say before. I can live without soaring rhetoric for public diplomacy’s sake, but what I can’t forgive is that this president has frittered away six years without forming a forceful or even a particularly...

Uncategorized

Search Results for: Obama not ready