“When Bush first came to power, he refused to talk with the North Koreans at all. Kim Jong-il was an evil dictator, and, as Cheney once put it, ‘We don’t negotiate with evil—we defeat it.’ … this deal [agreed on Tuesday] has promise; but it’s nothing that couldn’t have been negotiated four or five years ago, and it’s a long way from done.”

Could Bush finally be realising that for international agreements to work, they have to be internationally agreed upon? The Slate magazine article is here.

Posted Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 @ 4:09 am
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