And that’s apparently much more than we can say about John Kerry, who is the focus of attention on this Rich Lowry piece in the National Review. Says Kerry:
“We should have been engaged in bilateral negotiations from the get-go, from the beginning. And it was obvious that when you announce a policy of preemption and you invade another country, and you begin to build bunker-busting nuclear weapons, that Kim Jong Il was going to find a way to get the attention of this administration and he did.”
KCNA couldn’t have put it better themselves. Kevin at IA, taking time off from bashing Korean folk beliefs, succeeds in bringing us back to reality:
And tell me again Senator Dumbass, what kind of message do bilateral negotiations send to the rest of Asia? That’s right, repeat it with me…”North Korea is America’s problem to solve.” Kerry seems to be buying the bullshit line that if we just sit down with North Korea and hammer out a bilateral agreement, the problem will magically disappear. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, negotiating with North Korea is valuable only to the degree that it shows South Korea, China, and Japan (Russia is largely meaningless) that no verifiable agreement is possible. Talks must fail, and those countries must see talks fail, before further economic pressure or a blockade can even be put on the table.
Well put, Kevin. Well put.
