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...Obama Administration, for its part, feels as if it has no choice but to overhaul its policy. "We're in potentially a different place now with North Korea," a senior Administration official tells TIME. Obama came into office determined to close the deal George W. Bush had started to negotiate during his second term: persuading the North to stand down its nuclear program in return for an array of economic benefits as well as eventual diplomatic recognition by Washington. For now, that strategy is off. "I'm tired of buying the same horse twice," said Defense Secretary Robert Gates late...
...privately, however, that if coercive diplomacy toward Pyongyang is the goal, there are other ways for Washington and Beijing to work together. In fact, it's happened before. The most effective sanctions ever levied against the North were those designed and imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department during the Bush years. Not only did Treasury manage to freeze a Macau bank account through which the North Korean regime allegedly laundered millions of dollars, but it also persuaded several large banks in China to stop doing business with North Korea. In 2006, Kim Jong Il made removal of those sanctions...
...country's universities, where the U.S. is far from loved. But that sort of gesture is tough in Iraq; U.S. ambassadors must travel with a small army of guards. And even the highest security couldn't prevent an angry journalist from hurling his shoes at George W. Bush when the then President visited Baghdad in December...
...amazed by the double standard being used for Sotomayor. George W. Bush suspends constitutional rights to catch terrorists and is labeled evil and un-American. Sotomayor suspends constitutional rights to catch sex offenders and is said to be "empathetic" to the problems of police officers. Is it acceptable or unacceptable to ignore constitutional rights? Bryan Smith, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...Adelman, who greatly admired the earlier Rumsfeld but grew increasingly disillusioned with him during the Bush years, wonders whether Rumsfeld fundamentally changed or just appeared different to him. "Maybe he was better before, or maybe I was just wrong about him," Adelman said. "Maybe it's the challenges that were different later. I don't know...