So, Hillary thinks she knows best about foreign policy by blasting at Obama, condemning his suggestion that he would be willing, as president, to meet with the leaders of Cuba, Iran and other hostile nations without preconditions. “We simply cannot legitimize rogue regimes or weaken American prestige by impulsively agreeing to presidential talks that have no preconditions,” Clinton said. “It may sound good, but it doesn’t meet the real world test of foreign policy.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_foreign_policy;_ylt=ArfVpwoODPUmic8lTdheWzWs0NUE
Has Hillary so quickly forgotten the BIG ALARM BELL sent by NORTH KOREA’s Kim Jong Il, to cause so many nations into panic. N. Korea was placed under heavy criticism after it clamed to have carried out the nation’s first nuclear weapons, 240 miles northeast of Pyongyang.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0610/gallery.reactions/frameset.exclude.html
Remember Bush’s famous dubbing the “axis of evil”, running from Iraq and Iran to North Korea? Oh yes, Bush panicked, condemning what he termed a “provocative act” — and bluntly warned North Korea against trying to export its nuclear know-how. Remember this CNN video that was hitting American homes, day and night by CNN?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2006/10/09/sot.bush.nkorea.nuke.test.cnn
And thanks to a team of experts from the US, France and S. Korea, a proper analysis uncovered the testing to be relatively small. At least, unlike Iraq, Bush did insist the United States “remains committed to diplomacy” to settle the dispute. Still, Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill insisted “We’re going to work very hard to make sure North Korea understands the cost of this.”
US and Japan pushed for tough sanctions, demanding North Korea to submit to denuclearization under international supervision. And crazy John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN declared that Washington wants to go beyond the resolution the Security Council adopted in July. But China wasn’t persuaded because of the fear of potential cataclysmic “chaos, accompanying the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang, and those fears won’t have been eased by the regime’s demonstration of a capacity to lash out with nuclear weapons if it is being choked to death.”
Guess what? China and South Korea criticized Japan for exaggerating the North Korean nuclear threat, accusing Japanese rightists of building up North Korea as a dangerous enemy in order to provide the rationale for doing away with Article Nine of Japan’s postwar constitution, which forbids Japan from sending troops overseas.
China and South Korea, in particular, urged the United States to engage in dialogue and negotiation. Irrational Christopher Hill remained unconvinced, and tried to disabuse them of that expectation.
In December 2006, China hosted several rounds of negotiations in Beijing with participants from the US, China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia. These rounds were inconclusive, with North Korea’s chief negotiator, Kim Kye-gwan, blaming the US for the stalemate and declaring North Korea had disliked the US’s use of a tactic of both dialogue and pressure, carrots and sticks.” But North Korea had at least nominally recommitted itself to a 2005 draft accord to scrap its nuclear weapons. Still the nations persevered. The six-party talks reconvened in December 2006. Still, the talks were unproductive… until a January 2007 when U.S. and North Korean officials met in Berlin. The U.S. pledged to authorize the release of North Korea’s frozen $25 million. North Korean agreed to shut down their reactors and end production of nuclear weapons material. In the new agreement, announced in February 2007, North Korea pledged to suspend its nuclear programs within 60 days and allow inspectors back into the country in exchange for 50,000 tons of heavy fuel.
Hillary should understand that TALK CAN BE SOMETIMES NOT CHEAP. It can pave a way to a peaceful agreement… WITHOUT BLOODSHED.
