Day By Day© by Chris Muir.Monday, September 19, 2005
Paying the Danegeld...again.
Many are taking this story from North Korea as good news (including JYB). Color me unconvinced.
How is returning to the 1994 agreement a good thing? We gave them millions (billions?) in fuel oil, food and other aid in return for empty promises. Now we are talking about building them light water nuclear reactors (again) in exchange for them not building nuclear weapons. In other words, nothing.
Forgive me, but I do not think propping up one of the world's worst dictators in exchange for promises that have already broken in the past is a good idea. Will anyone be surprised in five years when we realize that North Korea has continued a clandestine nuclear weapons program?
Fool me once, shame on you...
In addition, we will undoubtedly be drawn back to the negotiation table again and again so the Kim can see what else he can threaten out of us.
"And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane."
How is returning to the 1994 agreement a good thing? We gave them millions (billions?) in fuel oil, food and other aid in return for empty promises. Now we are talking about building them light water nuclear reactors (again) in exchange for them not building nuclear weapons. In other words, nothing.
Forgive me, but I do not think propping up one of the world's worst dictators in exchange for promises that have already broken in the past is a good idea. Will anyone be surprised in five years when we realize that North Korea has continued a clandestine nuclear weapons program?
Fool me once, shame on you...
In addition, we will undoubtedly be drawn back to the negotiation table again and again so the Kim can see what else he can threaten out of us.
"And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane."
