OK, so North Korea is planning to launch a long-range missile to test its delivery technology. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (why do I always giggle when I contemplate that phrase?) says this would be a “provocative act.”
Well, yes, it would be. But what does Madame Secretary propose to do about it?
“We have made it very clear that the North Koreans pursue this pathway at a cost and with consequences to the six-party talks, which we would like to see revived,” Clinton said Wednesday in Mexico City.
“We intend to raise this violation of the Security Council resolution, if it goes forward, in the U.N.,” she said. “This provocative action in violation of the U.N. mandate will not go unnoticed and there will be consequences.”
Consequences, eh? Like what? Maybe the U.N. Security Council (another phrase that brings a smile, albeit a sad one, to my lips) will write Kim Jung Il a stern letter. That’s what Hans Blix threatened in “Team America.” It did not, alas, work out too well for him:
Roger,
I also heard Blix say on German TV that he had planned to appeal to Saddam’s honor to get him to comply with UN WMD demands. Bush obviously screwed up this promising plan, but maybe Hillary can revive it in a new venue.
“We have made it very clear that the North Koreans pursue this pathway at a cost and with consequences to the six-party talks, which we would like to see revived,” Clinton said Wednesday in Mexico City.
Am I to understand this statement as meaning that there might not be a negotiation that is currently not taking place?
Am I reading that correctly?
Oh good Lord, what’s she gone and said or done now?
I can never keep this stuff straight; If they’ve got missile’s that can reach one of our allies, (but not Israel) Hillary will take the matter straight to the top! right quick big kahuda!
Or if they don’t have any that we know about, like Mexico, then the responsibility for all this lies completely with us. ?
Inkosi Obama (Axios!) & Foggy Bottom
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“.. . .Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (why do I always giggle when I contemplate that phrase?) “
Why Inkosi Obama (Axios!) ever nominated Hillarious Clinton as Sec. of State, is beyond me.
I just saw her standing behind the president as he was delivering his “New Afghanistan Strategy” speech.
She looked exhausted, frustrated and demoralized.
Understandable, actually, after all she’d just returned from a 2 day trip to Mexico where she must have realized the futility of it all (as far as the Drug Cartels are concerned). And just previously to that she was in the Middle East and Europe on I don’t know what kind of mission.
She is obviously way over her head. I could see her actually sigh in despondency no doubt saying to herself (What have I gotten myself into?)
She’ll last a year and then resign on the pretext of needing more “time with her family”, the usual exit strategy of failed politicians.
What a ridiculous appointment.
But she also got tough with them too; she issued them a Pinultimatum: -”This is you next-to-the-last warning!! I swear!!!”