American Diplomatic Drive Comes Up Short [View All]

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Bush administration persistence in using diplomacy to solve a nuclear weapons crisis with North Korea (news - web sites) is coming up short as the insular regime bobs and weaves away from resuming negotiations.



The faltering effort is having a divisive effect on U.S. relations with South Korea (news - web sites) and Japan, which have blamed U.S. inflexibility for North Korea's refusal to halt its atomic weapons program.


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Rose Gotemoeller, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tends to agree with the criticism from South Korea and Japan.


"The way in which the administration has relied on diplomacy is to take a very hard line and stick with it, and not be willing to explore possible avenues of resolution," the former Clinton administration official said Monday.


"That's not diplomacy, that's standing tough," she said.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=3&u=/ap/20041214/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_korean_nuclear

So, I guess the next thing we'll hear...Diplomacy has failed, the US is out of options. To protect the US and fight them on their soil we must attack NK and Iran. :eyes: