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Saturday, January 04, 2003

# Posted 11:28 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

I PROFESS IGNORANCE: According to the NYT's editors, "The American people are confused by the contradictions between their government's approach to North Korea and Iraq, and frustrated by the sudden lack of clarity in their government's foreign policy."

Living in the UK, it's hard to know what the American people are thinking. But since I haven't seen any polls on the subject, I sort of suspect that the Times'elitism has gotten the better of it. Anyone who reads a newspaper realizes that we can't attack North Korea because, if we do, the North Koreans will strike back by slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent South Koreans and/or Japanese. That is called deterrence. (Confused? Ask Tom Friedman.)

Fortunately, we still have the chance to stop Iraq before it becomes another North Korea.
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