"Why Bilateral Talks With NK Won't Work" Fox/Hume Condi Interview

PATHETIC....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219440,00.html

HUME: The suggestion that's been made, and I've heard it from Tony Snow today, the administrators seem to be saying that what the Clinton administration did in its bilateral relationship with North Korea was worth a try. In retrospect though, it failed. Was it not a mistake?

RICE: Well, any — I guess if it didn't work, it didn't work. And so you can go back and try to recreate, was it the right thing to do? I happen to think that trying to have a situation in which North Koreans would freeze and then dismantle their nuclear weapons is probably a good idea. The problem is, they froze, but they retained the possibility of unfreezing at any time. They then left the nonproliferation treaty.

By the way, we forget that they launched a missile test in 1998 over the sea of Japan at the whole time that this relationship was supposedly developing with the United States. So they never behaved very well during this time of intense bilateral contact. And I think the Clinton administration in fact had to send military force into the area to send a signal.

So the North Koreans, when they're in a situation that they can get the United States bilaterally, one-on-one, they're in a stronger position to violate an agreement and then say, well, it's the fault of the United States.

In a six-party framework, with all the important players at the table, they're just not in that position.



These are the delusional people in charge. :scared:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219440,00.html

democracy there. We toppled Saddam, which really wasn't our place to do, but nothing else about invasion of Iraq except putting money in Halliburton's hands has worked.

Let's take a chance on bi-lateral talks. If they don't work, then we can say bi-lateral talks won't work. Until we try, how do we know? It can't be worse than what is happening in Iraq because we refused to negotiate with Saddam.

bilateral talks with North Korea, no stem cell research beyond the 20 lines The Decider has approved, no withdrawal from Iraq, no habeas corpus, etc., etc. can take place until after January 20 2009, resignation, or impeachment.