Monday, February 17, 2003
A RESOUNDING ENDORSEMENT FOR DIALOG WITH THE DPRK . . . NOT! This sounds more like damning with faint praise than an actual advocacy of negotiations:
"Direct talks are an indispensable ingredient of a solution here," said Ashton B. Carter, a former Pentagon official who is now a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "The issue is only when and what to say. Once we figure that out, we can begin the experiment of seeing whether or not North Korea can be talked out of going nuclear."
