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2007-10-12 China-Japan-Koreas

U.S. negotiations with Norks yielding no concrete info about nuke program

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2007-10-12 15:37|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Why don't they ask the Syrians?

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-12 16:00|| 2007-10-12 16:00|| Front Page Top

#2 The central problem is that Kim continues his egregious oxygen theft.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-12 17:15|| 2007-10-12 17:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The central problem is that we are there preventing reunification.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 17:22|| 2007-10-12 17:22|| Front Page Top

#4 And may I assume that Condi is calling the shots on this mad hatter's tea party of Hill's?

It's possible. Or there are enough careerists there that it scarcely even matters who the secretary is anymore. I'm not sure which is more disturbing.

Posted by eLarson 2007-10-12 17:40|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-10-12 17:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The thing that really bothers me about this whole Nork/US negotiations is that it is being played out in the Clinton White House style but Bush is in the White House.

And thanks to the Mod who put the Charlie Brown/Lucy football cartoon in the article. It is sooooo....... appropriate.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-10-12 18:53|| 2007-10-12 18:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Same State Dept tools - I'd thought Christopher Hill had his head on straight...perhaps it's a "contact buzz" from his peers? I wonder if it's as dire as noted. Hill had been acknowledging the complications of negotiating with proven liars, I'd assumed enough safeguards against NK waffling were built-in....we'll see, I guess.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-12 19:02|| 2007-10-12 19:02|| Front Page Top

#7 North Korea wil only disable, not destroy its alleged nuc reactors for now, and won't disclose specifically how many nuclear devices it actually has - SSSSSSSHHHHHHH, iff any???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-12 19:36|| 2007-10-12 19:36|| Front Page Top

#8 The cookie pushers must win promotions based on getting agreements signed, sort of like the military does when one wins an action. Perhaps these guys are just trying to get an agreement, any agreement, to get their ticket punched for the next level, the State Peace College?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 19:38|| 2007-10-12 19:38|| Front Page Top

#9 ouch, NS.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-12 20:25|| 2007-10-12 20:25|| Front Page Top

#10 And if you think I was snarky before wait till this gem gets posted tomorrow. I'm so po'ed I don't know if I'll get to sleep with out first inducing alcohol poisoning.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 20:31|| 2007-10-12 20:31|| Front Page Top

#11 NS, count back to when some of these generals were considered promotable to full Colonel or their first star.

3 guesses who was president then, who stripped out a lot of good people from the military ranks and whose imprimatur was on the ones that stayed.

Not a blanket indictment - some like Pace and Petraeus made it through. But others .....

Posted by lotp 2007-10-12 20:51|| 2007-10-12 20:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm just so po'ed on so many levels, but I thought Rummy had ferreted most of them out, at least those who would be in positions of real responsibility. I fear for the Republic when people like this are so prevalent in the leadership of all institutions of the country, but especially the military, who sacrifice their whole lives for the country. I really spend a lot of time wondering if there is some limit to how long a republic can last.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 21:06|| 2007-10-12 21:06|| Front Page Top

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