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[Freekorea.blogspot.com] onefreekorea: Recognises that the EU was the first and only party to engage in human rights dialogues with the DPRK after the Troika visit in 2001, led by Swedish Prime Minister and President of the European Council Göran Persson, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union Javier Solana, and External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten, and that the dialogue was discontinued as of 2003, when the Council of Ministers sponsored a Human Rights resolution at the UNCHR without informing the North Koreans; urges both sides, therefore, to endeavour to restart the human rights dialogue between the EU and the DPRK;
[Tnr.com] The Plank: Over at The Corner, Stanley Kurtz has some thoughts about an overwrought but justifiably pessimistic Victor Davis Hanson piece on Iran, and what on earth we do about the country's nuclear program. Interestingly, Kurtz then argues the following:
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[Nysun.com] Bush's Iran Flank - January 23, 2006 - The New York Sun: Exhibit A in this regard is Senator Clinton's speech last week at Princeton, where in respect of Iran she chided President Bush from the right. "I believe that we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations," Mrs.
[Armscontrolwonk.com] ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: TNR, P.Scoblic, and ...: Yes, Bush reportedly read the Sharansky book and says some shit about .This provision is the back door that Iran and North Korea have exploited to .
[Westhawk] North Korean ICBM already causing casualties: Ashton Carter and William Perry, assistant U.S. Defense Secretary and U.S. Defense Secretary, respectively, during the Clinton administration, to inflict upon themselves severe self-inflicted wounds to their reputations. As the North Korean missile test approaches, Messrs.
[Think Progress] Bolton Attacks U.N. Human Rights Official For... : that they are constrained by an “absolute ban on torture and the right to a fair trial.” She added, “It is vital that at all times Governments anchor in law their response to terrorism.”
Touchy Subjects by Mokie Joe: To understand the methodology of the story-telling media, look no further than two situations currently occupying the energy of netroots activists: Chris Matthews’ equating of bin Laden and Michael Moore and Tim Russert’s racially-tinged, guilt-by-association line of questioning in a recent interview with Barack Obama. In each instance, the meta-theme is that Democrats are terrorist-lite traitors, and the subtext is that Bush and Republicans are the true patriots.
[THE TENSION] Counterbalance: Tue. 20 June: addresses two questions: First, why would Kim Jong-Il be willing to risk fresh isolation and possible sanctions that have been threatened by the United States and Japan in the wake of a missile launch that will, if past practice is any guide probably transit Japanese airspace and fly a trajectory towards U.S. territory? Second, we must recognize that negotiating with the North Koreans -- either multilaterally or bilaterally is a loser, just as it is with the Iranians.
[The Common Ills] Democracy Now: New Orleans teachers fired, Bill... : Reuters notes that, although no Japanese troops were "killed or wounded in Iraq," "six Japanese citizens, including two diplomats, have been killed by insurgents in Iraq." China's Xinhau reports that the prime ministers discussed the intended withdrawal "with leaders of the ruling coalition and opposition parties" on Tuesday morning "shortly before the announcement." As Amy Goodman reported, Japan joins Italy with the announcement of pulling troops out by year's end and that "Spain, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Nicaragua, the Philipines and Honduras have already pulled out." Noting "Japan's Kyodo news agency," the Financial Times of London states the withdrawal "process could be completed by the end of July." Xinhua notes the same possibility and credits word on it to "Japanese government officials."
[The Hotline's Blogometer] 6/19: A Foreign Affair: Regardless of the polling, the American people know that pulling out of Iraq now that we're there isn't the right thing to do." Blue Crab Boulevard picks up Lieberman's final sentence from the quotation, which appears to be a warning to the Dems. Gay Patriot says the Dems have a dilemma, but not as large as his, apparently: "Right now, Joe Lieberman faces the dilemma of whether to make contingency plans to run as an independent or stake it all on winning the Democratic primary (which would make him a shoo-in for re-election).
[Adam Ash] Two pieces on the Iraq F-up that are actually... : In 1940 the defeated British Army in Belgium was driven back by the Germans to the French seacoast city of Dunkirk, where it had to abandon its equipment and escape across the English Channel on a fleet of civilian vessels, fishing smacks, yachts, small boats, anything and everything that could float and carry the defeated and wounded army to safety”¦ [In Iraq,] there is no seaport troops could get to, so the only way out of Iraq would be that same desert highway to Kuwait where fifteen years ago the American Air Force destroyed Saddam Hussein's army."
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