Armitage Kim
How to talk to a dictator

by Daniel Freedman
National Review Online
October 12, 2006

http://www.dfreedman.org/5304/armitage-kim

Excerpt:

Forget condemnations and Security Council talks. It's "Richard Armitage time" for North Korea and Iran. Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad need a phone call from the White House warning them that unless they surrender their nuclear program and fully cooperate they'll be "bombed back to the stone-age." This type of tough talk quickly brought Pakistan onside in the war on terror. The Neville Chamberlain-like behavior known as diplomacy, meantime, has only brought us broken deadlines and a greater threat from Iran and North Korea. The most recent consequence of which was when North Korea claimed to have conducted a nuclear test on Sunday night.

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