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I'm way younger.

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Why are the two mutually exclusive?

And why does Bush insist that bilateral talks mean the end of multilateral talks?

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Yeah. That's why they both seem oddly inconsistent.

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Bilateral necessarily means that conversation will take place only between two parties.

Japan and China (and a few others) have a hugely more important stake in this issue than do we. NK wants us in alone because it doesn't want to be faced with the various pressures and risks inherent in dealing with some of its biggest "allies" in an adversarial process.

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Consistency is the hobsomething of something somethings . . . .

(Different tacks for different situations isn't "inconsistent". It's flexible Merely because you can draw some gross parallels between different situations doesn't mean they equate perfectly.)

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Only if you assume there can only be one course of talks.

etft -- t.s.

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Note the word "seem."

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Mine was "Triblenka Square"

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The same CBS that portrayed as an "undecided" the other night someone who gave a hundred bucks to the Kerry campaign?

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If China were not included in any one course of talks, then, (1), NK could proceed in that course of talks free of having to appease China on whatever issues were to be discussed, leaving any failure to satisfy China the "fault" of the US, and (2), China would be sorely pissed off.

Neither of those would be good things.

The situation is so intertwined between ALL affected countries that any attempt to short-cut discussions among all concerned is doomed to failure. I can't see Kerry's rationale for "bilateral", unless it's simply to have a difference with Bush.

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True. And, like I said, the wonks have already decided.

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And a difference from the whole NK with nukes thing...

But I agree that I don't see a strong reason to favor bilateral over multilateral.

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Interesting splot:

"LOCKHART: DEBATE CONSENSUS A 'DRAW'

Unbeknownst to Kerry adviser Mike McCurry, a C-SPAN camera quietly followed McCurry as he found Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart on Spin Alley floor and asked him his impression of the debate. Lockhart candidly said to McCurry , “The consensus is it was a draw.”


(It's from Drudge, so it's a FWIW sort of thing.)

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They've got yet another faking problem that should be hitting the news tomorrow.

They're not having a good month.

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My memory's going. It was the Globe, not CBS. The guy claiming he could duplicate the Killian memos on a typewriter that the Globe was getting all excited about. But a blogger hacked into his public server, and found his drafts in the process of forging his "proof" on Photoshop.

http://wizbangblog.com/archives/003851.php

Funny as hell.

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see, I'm pretty sure I'm ignored. either from the ignore list or people just have stopped reading and scroll by. i mean i said this, I said many other things people second w/o realizing they are seconding. I may move to Tucker Max with P. after all.