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Re: This just came across my desk... Iraqi Questions
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:31:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > I'm having a bit of a problem with that assertion. Either the DPRK (note the
> > > difference, I refer to the dictatorship, not the oppressed masses who
> > > suffer) is evil, or it isn't. (it is, all Stalinist regiimes are)
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> Is the DPRK evil or not? I missed where you answered this one, Dave!
Whoops! Let me clarify: Inasmuch as we have previously agreed that
communist nations are evil (as opposed to Dubya's fire-&-brimstone pulpit
definition of evil), then I agree that DPRK is evil.
> > Not that the DPRK isn't a problem in its own right, but the current
> > escalation from crisis-in-the-background to catastrophe-waiting-to-happen
> > seems truly to have resulted from the policies of the current
> > administration, rather than from the actions of the prior admin.
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> Pin it on the current administration, eh? That's quite the stretch, even for
> you, Dave!
Nice usage, once again!
> I'm completely happy to place most of the blame for where we are now on the
> Agreed Framework, which was a nice little work of appeasement. Surely you agree?
I'm not sure, and alas I'm not wholly conversant with The Agreed
Framework. If you're talking about the oil-to-DPNK in exchange for IAEA
inspector access and all the rest, then I think it was at least in principle
a good plan, or not a terribly bad one, all things considered. And if its
intent was to slow the DPNK's nuclear program, it seems to have worked for a
while...
Dave!
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