"LET US REASON TOGETHER", HE LOST

No Time to Lose on North Korea (NY Times, July 18, 2003)

Washington cannot resign itself to a North Korea free to threaten its neighbors with nuclear destruction and sell plutonium to rogue states and terrorists. Nor can it consider military action, which could ignite a new war on the Korean peninsula and possibly lead to a North Korean nuclear attack on Japan. Diplomacy is the only acceptable alternative, and time may be running short.

Here's a textbook example of how the beginnings of international negotiations always come only after one side has lost already. Under the Times' scenario the only question to be determined in negotiations is how much payola Kim Jong-Il gets this time. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 18, 2003 10:59 AM