Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Whatever, it's a deal

North Korea has stopped building nukes...for now.

Proving diplomacy works, six-party talks between China, Japan, Russia, US, South Korea and North Korea have ended with North Korea agreeing to suspend development of nuclear weapons. In return, it will get 50,000 tons of fuel oil or financial aid of an equal amount.

If this sounds familiar, this is in fact a similar deal negotiated by the Clinton Administration in 1994 to avert a war. It was successful under President Bush decided to name North Korea part of an "Axis of Evil" and then criticize Clinton's deal, cause you know, little wussy Clinton begged North Korea not to hurt him by giving the Communist nation financial aid to not build nukes.

At the end, he did exactly what Clinton did. Big man....BIG MAN George Bush. He tried being a brave cowboy warrior and in the end, he negotiated his way out of a crisis, just like, you know, every sane person would try to do first.

Now that keeps North Korea at bay for a while...on to Iran I guess.

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