"It would seem that Karl Marx got things backwards. History does not repeat itself first as tragedy and then as farce."

NO, it would not. The World Wars were tragedy. The Cold War was a farce and guess what Ms. Know It All Better Than Karl Marx! Today is the beginning of another Cold War, with it's ensuing nuclear build-up, but this time there are more nuclear armed players - exactly what the Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty tried to prevent.

"It was the Clinton administration, which back in the Roaring '90s began the policy of appeasing North Korea."

And it was the Cold War that created North Korea. It is the Bush administration that refused the offer from North Korea not to build a nuclear weapon if Bush would sign a pact not to attack Korea and he refused. North Korea knows Bush would do a pre-emptive strike, aka Iraq.

"THERE IS of course also North Korea's ally Iran."

So sorry Glick, but the spin cycle is over - time to hang out to dry on the cloths line under the sun.

"While hypocritical, the division between rhetoric and substance has something to recommend it."

Spoken like the proverbal politician!

"...US can support military actions by Japan and South Korea against North Korea...so revamp its nuclear arsenal."

Bullies in the back yard! Everybody grab a stick!

"...Bush administration...change...policy...regarding Iran...shame(ing)...Europe's appeasement...threatening Russia...if Moscow continues supporting Iran, Syria and Hizbullah...building up...military options to strike at Iran's nuclear installations...such a move could even help the Republican Party in the upcoming elections."

A Jewish World Review Glick Dream: Republicans staying in power and protecting Israel's occupation.

"After seven years, the myth of Arafat the peacemaker exploded..."

Arafat may have died but his truth lives on - he offered to share Jerusalem (the TRUE core of the problem) but Israel refused!

"Since Arafat appointed Mahmoud Abbas, his deputy of 40 years, PA prime minister in 2003..."

Indeed lets go back in history...to the beginning, when Roosevelt wanted to free ALL the colonies, but when Truman took over after Roosevelt's death he changed our foreign policy into slicing up several countries, including slicing Israel out of Palestine. How much cheaper in lives and money would it have been for the Israelis to purchase that property?

"North Korea's nuclear test and Iran's nuclear intimidation show us what happens when failed policies are not abandoned."

Iraq shows us what happens when failed policies are not abandoned.

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