Saturday, June 24, 2006
Three Opinions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101518.html
If Necessary, Strike and Destroy
North Korea Cannot Be Allowed to Test This Missile
By Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry
Thursday, June 22, 2006; Page A29
North Korean technicians are reportedly in the final stages of fueling a long-range ballistic missile that some experts estimate can deliver a deadly payload to the United States. The last time North Korea tested such a missile, in 1998, it sent a shock wave around the world, but especially to the United States and Japan, both of which North Korea regards as archenemies. They recognized immediately that a missile of this type makes no sense as a weapon unless it is intended for delivery of a nuclear warhead....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201465.html
No, Don't Blow It Up
A Saner Approach to a North Korean Missile Test
By Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard
Friday, June 23, 2006; Page A25
For 1,971 days the Bush administration ignored North Korea's missile program as unimportant and unthreatening to the security of the United States. Then it woke up. Unfortunately, the alarm clock was North Korea's preparation to test a long-range missile. By simply putting a Taepodong ICBM on the launch pad, North Korea has managed to turn truly smart people into foolish ones.
In the week or so since word spread that Pyongyang was erecting and then fueling a Taepodong, we have seen a spate of opinion pieces declaring the following: that North Korea is in violation of its own missile moratorium and the Sept. 19, 2005, Beijing Joint Statement; that the Chinese and South Koreans are at fault for coddling the enemy; and that South Korea is a runaway ally full of appeasers, and we should work around it....
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/post_14.html
ASHTON CARTER, FMR. ASST. DEFENSE SECRETARY: The idea is to recommend to President Bush that he tell the North Koreans that if they prepare an intercontinental missile for launch, that he will order the U.S. military to destroy the missile on its launch pad rather than let it be tested, because such a test can give them the information they need to build a whole fleet of missiles at that and aim them at us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUME: That man, who was the assistant secretary -- an assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration along with former Clinton defense Secretary William Perry proposed that idea in the "Washington Post" today. Some analytical observations on it now from Mort Kondracke, executive editor of "Roll Call"; Mara Liasson national political correspondent of National Public Radio; and the syndicated columnist, Charles Krauthammer, FOX News contributors all....
If Necessary, Strike and Destroy
North Korea Cannot Be Allowed to Test This Missile
By Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry
Thursday, June 22, 2006; Page A29
North Korean technicians are reportedly in the final stages of fueling a long-range ballistic missile that some experts estimate can deliver a deadly payload to the United States. The last time North Korea tested such a missile, in 1998, it sent a shock wave around the world, but especially to the United States and Japan, both of which North Korea regards as archenemies. They recognized immediately that a missile of this type makes no sense as a weapon unless it is intended for delivery of a nuclear warhead....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201465.html
No, Don't Blow It Up
A Saner Approach to a North Korean Missile Test
By Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard
Friday, June 23, 2006; Page A25
For 1,971 days the Bush administration ignored North Korea's missile program as unimportant and unthreatening to the security of the United States. Then it woke up. Unfortunately, the alarm clock was North Korea's preparation to test a long-range missile. By simply putting a Taepodong ICBM on the launch pad, North Korea has managed to turn truly smart people into foolish ones.
In the week or so since word spread that Pyongyang was erecting and then fueling a Taepodong, we have seen a spate of opinion pieces declaring the following: that North Korea is in violation of its own missile moratorium and the Sept. 19, 2005, Beijing Joint Statement; that the Chinese and South Koreans are at fault for coddling the enemy; and that South Korea is a runaway ally full of appeasers, and we should work around it....
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/post_14.html
ASHTON CARTER, FMR. ASST. DEFENSE SECRETARY: The idea is to recommend to President Bush that he tell the North Koreans that if they prepare an intercontinental missile for launch, that he will order the U.S. military to destroy the missile on its launch pad rather than let it be tested, because such a test can give them the information they need to build a whole fleet of missiles at that and aim them at us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HUME: That man, who was the assistant secretary -- an assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration along with former Clinton defense Secretary William Perry proposed that idea in the "Washington Post" today. Some analytical observations on it now from Mort Kondracke, executive editor of "Roll Call"; Mara Liasson national political correspondent of National Public Radio; and the syndicated columnist, Charles Krauthammer, FOX News contributors all....
