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...Viewpoint: Kim vs. Saddam
...where in the aftermath of 9/11, a decision was taken to seek regime change in Iraq. That Saddam is a dangerous tyrant who should be removed from the world stage is indisputable?from both Asian and American points of view. But the Bush Administration's agenda?to resolve the Kim Jong Il problem after Saddam is deposed?may be tipping into obsolescence. Asians wonder at what point Kim Jong Il's weapons projects and bellicose talk will finally cause a reordering of American priorities. Building a diplomatic coalition to resolve the North Korean problem will take almost as much...
...policy. (The Secretary also fails to mention the horrible potential cost of a second Asian front. During the latter half of the 20th century the U.S. lost more lives in combat in Asia than in wars in the rest of the world combined.) The current approach of treating Kim Jong Il as less dangerous than Saddam Hussein and the North Korean problem as little more than a troubling sideshow is what opens the U.S. to accusations of caring more about oil than security. Averting yet another Asian conflict should be a more central and immediate goal of U.S. policy...
...Asians, the sight of Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.N. playing audio tapes of Iraqi officers allegedly discussing the hiding of chemical weapons seems almost comical when Kim Jong Il's scientists have fired up a nuclear reactor, the primary purpose of which is to produce weapons-grade plutonium. American inaction in the face of North Korean threats amounts to throwing oil onto the fire. Or should I say putting petroleum before a burning issue...
...Viewpoint: Kim vs. Saddam