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2013-04-05 China-Japan-Koreas

Bill Richardson: "Suicidal" for North Korea to attack America

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-04-05 01:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Richardson has visited the NORKs about 6 times on various diplo or other trips. Each time he comes back and says the same thing 'more diplomacy'.

It would be nice if he would take up permanent residence there.

Posted by lord garth 2013-04-05 07:35|| 2013-04-05 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree. He could enter the North clandestinely and avoid media, visa, and immigration hassle by swimming across the Imjin at night.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-05 07:40|| 2013-04-05 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Bill needs a potential sanctuary. The Pay-to-Play graft scandal effecting his governing in New Mexico in which his name came up frequently only ended because The One relieved the Fed AG who was running the corruption investigation. Strange coincidence that and Bill's support of the The One in 2008. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-05 09:30|| 2013-04-05 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 911 was suicidal too...
but it happened.

Posted by Water Modem 2013-04-05 11:02|| 2013-04-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Hell, for Pakistan, it paid off.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-05 11:02|| 2013-04-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Think like a Lert Joe!

Posted by Shipman 2013-04-05 11:09|| 2013-04-05 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 9/11 elicited a military response, but it wasn't a suicidal move for Afghanistan, the Pashtuns or the Taliban.

North Korea might be tempted to emulate Afghanistan.

If they sponsor a massive terror attack on the continental US they will receive danegeld and ideological submission.

The post Iraq war consensus mandates that even after a terror attack the US must make every effort to give the open and declared enemy every benefit of every doubt (however unreasonable) to justify inaction.

After the attack the Norks could gloat and praise the attack to their heart's content without running the risk of a military conflict. And soon after they'd reap the political and material benefits from a cowed, paralysed and demoralized America.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-04-05 11:55|| 2013-04-05 11:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey! Look at me! Look at ME!!

Posted by Bill Richardson 2013-04-05 12:01|| 2013-04-05 12:01|| Front Page Top

#9 The NORKs believe if we kick the crap out of them, we'd give them a Marshall plan to rebuild the place.

Correct me if I am wrong but the Norks would be better off cutting a deal with Exxon for their oil shale and Monsanto for their rare earth deposits...prosperity for everyone but it would not be congruent with Kimmie or Pudgies ideology.

Such a mess, someone should have done something ages ago.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-04-05 12:27|| 2013-04-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Well the jury has come in on the judgement of Clinton's foreign policy and it seems it was a failure everywhere. He punted and the future gets stuck with a worse problem. Say what you want about W he confronted the problem rather than punting.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-04-05 14:38|| 2013-04-05 14:38|| Front Page Top

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