Y’all have misinterpreted Richardson’s visit to Pyongyang badly. I think it will get NK back to the table and open it up to UN Inspectors, personally. This is what I think:
“One thing the Bush administration has never understood is that diplomacy and military power are not alternatives to one another, but rather are complementary sources of strength. Because diplomacy without power is weak; power without diplomacy is blind.”
This is the core of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s international platform, taken from a speech he gave in New Hampshire in late 2006, and the kind of insight he gained as UN Ambassador and Energy Secretary during Clinton. His international resume is a breath of fresh air, and since the USA needs urgently to rebuild and to entirely rethink its international policies, after 6 years of corporate Halliburton-driven plutocracy, I believe Richardson really MUST become President.
Our domestic economy is in the pits because of hundreds of billions of
dollars going to Iraq and to Afghanistan, mostly military expenditures, all to advance the Bush Administration’s corporate agenda. Other nations are capitalizing on our errors and our distractions, like China with its
trillion dollar balance of payments, as well as Russia, which funded many of the developing nations in colonial struggles, both pointing to our oppressive presence in Iraq, telling African, South Asian, and South American nations that they are perfectly willing to BUY their natural resources, instead of plundering them, as we are so transparently doing in Iraq!
The international backlash of a totally failed USA foreign policy has profound implications for a worsening USA domestic economy, and the situation is getting seriously worse by the day. This is why I support Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign. He recently stated the war would be over on his first day in office, and his trip to North Korea is already bringing
important results.
Here is another quote from 3/28: “I would not leave any troops in Iraq. … If I were president today, I would withdraw by the end of this calendar year. But I would also have a reconciliation conference of the 3
religious groups, forge a coalition government, and divide the country into three entities… I don’t believe you need a residual force in Iraq. I believe you need any troops that you can deploy from Iraq. I would put them in Afghanistan, where al Qaeda and the Taliban are serious threats”
(“Hardball,” MSNBC, 3/28).
How about putting USA’s troops nowhere, for a change?] Truly,
Stephen Fox
(P.S. I am in no way connected with the Richardson campaign; these are my own views entirely)
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