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Applying the lessons of North Korea to Iran.

« H E Eternal Hope :: email
posted Wednesday, 3 October 2007

The lead editorial of the New York Times today praises something that is far too rare for the Bush administration -- the use of diplomacy to dismantle North Korea's nuclear program. The government, for once, showed admirable restraint when they got North Korea to agree to a verifiable dismantlement of their nuclear program and reversed -- for once -- one of their many failures. The government is capable of showing this kind of (reluctant?) restraint elsewhere -- for instance, during the hostage situation in which Iran took 15 British hostages.

This is the sort of diplomacy that can be replicated elsewhere, such as in Iran and Sudan and that should have been used instead of the decision to invade and occupy Iraq no matter what. There is no need for the kind of useless provocations that the Bush administration is engaging in by building a base near the border of Iran to monitor the flow of arms into Iraq. Once the deal with North Korea is wrapped up, the Bush administration should dispatch Christopher Hill to Iran to start similar such talks with that country over their nuclear program.

The Bush administration has been dominated by total disasters -- Iraq, the total disregard for human rights, the paralysis in the Middle East, and the moral vacuum that has opened up as other countries are suspicious of the administration's intentions. The least that they can do is to put this country on the right track for the next president to take over.

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