Helen Thomas vs. Ari Fleischer

Matthew Snyder matthew at pobox.com
Wed Jan 8 13:11:01 PST 2003


Doug Henwood writes:
> Wow, Brit Hume had the answer to that on Fox News last night - maybe
> he forgot to tell the admin! It's this: they're approaching Iraq on
> the terror model, and NK on the Cold War model. Containment worked in
> the Cold War, but can't in the war on terrorism. Presumably the
> underlying concept is that Cold Warriors are rational and terrorists
> aren't. You deal with the former, and kill the latter.

The recent Economist cover story points out that while Iraq is "in breach of a catalogue of UN Security Council resolutions," no such resolutions exist for North Korea. The article also proposes that an attack on North Korea would almost certainly lead to the destruction of Seoul (which sits only several miles from the border) by NK's artillery, as well as a more general attack on SK by NK, whereas Iraq's missile capabilities are sufficiently depleted as to pose "no equivalent threat" to its neighbors.

-- Matthew Snyder Philadelphia, PA



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