January 06, 2004
Bush refuses to lift sanctions on Libya without "concrete steps"
NorKs try promising to be good next
N. Korea Offers to Halt Nuke Facilities
U.S. Refuses to Lift Sanctions on Libya
The good news out of these stories is:
1. Maybe both Libya and North Korea mean what they're saying this time and are really in the process of disarming.
2. We're not taking IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei's word for it that Libya's nuke program "wasn't that advanced." (or whatever disclaimer he tried to use last week to get his Muslim "brother" Muammar off the hook.)
Stay tuned for developments--this is far from over.
My guess is that both Khaddafi and Kim Jung-Il are trying to talk, promise and lie their way out of accountability for their WMD programs, just like their pal and former ally Saddam tried to do with us last year.
Poor Saddam: everyone thinks he's an idiot (even his "friends"), except Jacques ChIRAQ!
I hope they both know by now that George W. Bush doesn't just talk, he backs talk up with real action, the kind of action involving aircraft carriers off of one's coasts and thousands of Uncle Sam's men and women in uniform with M16s.
I'm sure this little meeting in Moscow over the weekend between old buddies China and Russia over the NorK situation had nothing whatsoever to do with the Kim's newly-discovered spirit of cooperation either!
He's probably worried that the ChiComs will cut off the gas again!
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