Comments on: The North Korea blame game http://donklephant.com/2006/10/13/the-north-korea-blame-game/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:13:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ICAS http://donklephant.com/2006/10/13/the-north-korea-blame-game/#comment-308366 ICAS Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:05 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/10/13/the-north-korea-blame-game/#comment-308366 Is there solid proof of the allegations of uranium enrichment that the US used as a basis for withdrawing from the Agreed ramework in 2002? Is there solid proof of the allegations of uranium enrichment that the US used as a basis for withdrawing from the Agreed ramework in 2002?

]]> By: Alan Stewart Carl http://donklephant.com/2006/10/13/the-north-korea-blame-game/#comment-85403 Alan Stewart Carl Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:52:00 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/10/13/the-north-korea-blame-game/#comment-85403 I've said it a thousand times: foregin policy is REALLY complex--despite what armchair diplomats would have you believe. Decisions are not cut-and-dry and almost never obvious. Even 20/20 hindsight is blurry because we simply don't know, for any given situation, how things would have turned out had we acted differently. I firmly believe that there has never really been a "good choice" when it comes to dealing with North Korea. Each president has had to pick from a collection of bad choices and hope he picked the least bad action (or inaction). Should any specific president have made different choices? Maybe. But most likely different choices would have just led to different but equally bad results. I’ve said it a thousand times: foregin policy is REALLY complex–despite what armchair diplomats would have you believe. Decisions are not cut-and-dry and almost never obvious. Even 20/20 hindsight is blurry because we simply don’t know, for any given situation, how things would have turned out had we acted differently.

I firmly believe that there has never really been a “good choice” when it comes to dealing with North Korea. Each president has had to pick from a collection of bad choices and hope he picked the least bad action (or inaction). Should any specific president have made different choices? Maybe. But most likely different choices would have just led to different but equally bad results.

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