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Mark Adomanis’ Nov. 15 comment (“Did Bush Get It Right?”) is replete with distortion and logical fallacy. First, Adomanis cites an academic report that claims that a totalitarian system like that of North Korea??s is as effective as a completely democratic one in curtailing terrorism, and draws the conclusion that Bush’s attempts at democratization in the Middle East are therefore justified. The report as Adomanis presents it appears to suggest that political stability, not political freedom, better curbs terrorism. Second, he creates a liberal straw...
...organized pub crawl sounded touristy and gimmicky, but hell, free shots were a tempting offer. And I’d made this two-week stop in Berlin—in between my summer research trip in Ukraine and returning home to Korea??for no reason other than Berlin’s party town reputation (and that Philippe and another recent Harvard grad I knew were there...
...think he would be better off using economic indicators like [gross national product] as an example to show Korea??s economic development because he is a well-respected scholar and president of Harvard University,” Kim said, according to the Korea Times...
...regime, as he seems to believe. Kim’s suspicion that the United States intends to launch “a war of aggression against the DPRK,” as last week’s radio address put it, seems to be the driving motivation behind North Korea??s nuclear build-up. But then, this suspicion, and Kim’s reticence to disarm and readmit weapons inspectors, is not so surprising after what happened to the last member of the Axis of Evil who acquiesced to inspections. After Iraq, it may take a new occupant...
...answer: take away the regime’s incentive to supply its goods to the nuclear market by imposing a total embargo on all trade between North Korea and other nations. (An exemption could be made for food aid.) The embargo would amount to a quarantine along North Korea??s borders and coast, enforced by the U.S., Japan, Russia, China and South Korea. Although no quarantine could make smuggling impossible, by drastically raising the cost of smuggling, the quarantine could make the business thoroughly unprofitable...