Inter Press Service:
Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines, and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent U.S. neo-conservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test.
Writing in publications from National Review Online (NRO) to the New York Times, neo-conservatives claim, contrary to the lessons drawn by "realist" and other critics of the George W. Bush administration, that Monday's test vindicates their long-held view that negotiations with "rogue" states like North Korea are useless and that "regime change" -- by military means, if necessary -- is the only answer.
"With our intelligence on North Korea so uneven, the doctrine of pre-emption must return to the fore," wrote Dan Blumenthal, an Asia specialist at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) who worked for Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during Bush's first term, in the NRO Tuesday. "Any talk of renewed six-party talks [involving China, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and the two Koreas] must be resisted."
Let me get this straight -- Bush refused to talk with N. Korea, NK lights off a nuke (which was a dud, BTW), and this proves that negotiations are useless? How do they know? It's not like it's something Bush has tried -- not drectly, anyway.
Besides, PDRK can't get its shit together. It's big Fourth of July missile test was a failure and now there's this device, which was so weak that some wonder if it wasn't a hoax.
And since when is adding more nukes to the mix a good idea? For that matter, what makes them think Japan wants them?
Someone get these guys a straitjacket.
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