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  • #61
    Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
    Then it would have to be considered rather stupid to call them a member of "an axis of evil" if we don't have the power to do more than ask them nicely to not do things that offend us.
    No it was part of a diliberate foreign policy statagy which we worked out with the Japanese and the South Koreans. The Koreans would continue their sunshine policy and act as the "good cop" while the U.S. would take a hardline strategy pretending to be the "bad cop". The idea was to motivate them using the carrot and the stick.

    In my opinion it is a great policy and I think it should be continued. Sure, NK will scream & yell, then they will rant & rave, and then they will shut up and continue working with the sunshine policy. They'll do that because that's the only way they'll get the food and energy aid they're looking for.
    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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    • #62
      Blair is playing the poodle to a) maintain the close alliance with the US that allows the UK to pretend to be a global power while b) moderating the nutjobs in Washington.

      Of course he did that at the risk of having to go along with a war of aggression in violation of international law. If it happens it will be interesting.

      So, Bush, attack Iraq NOW!
      “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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      • #63
        Originally posted by HershOstropoler
        to pretend to be a global power
        Exactly.
        12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
        Stadtluft Macht Frei
        Killing it is the new killing it
        Ultima Ratio Regum

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        • #64
          I find myself agreeing with you a lot on this issue, Roland. We should set up a Canadian-Austrian friendship league or something...
          12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
          Stadtluft Macht Frei
          Killing it is the new killing it
          Ultima Ratio Regum

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          • #65
            Just a common big-neighbour-with-similar-language syndrome....
            “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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