The parallels between the destruction of the Agreed Framework with North Korea and what some are trying to do to the JCPOA are frightening.
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2. Read this on negotiations with North Korea. It's substantially correct, with some quibbles. https://www.thenation.com/article/diplomacy-with-north-korea-has-worked-before-and-can-work-again/ …
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3. The Agreed Framework kept North Korea from a bomb for a decade. But Republicans tried to undermine it from the beginning.
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4. Just as they are now doing with the Iran Deal (JCPOA). They lie and provoke.
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5. Just as in the Bush administration, they have an ear in the White House. Nikki Haley has been repeating their lies verbatim.
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6. When the Bush administration broke the Agreed Framework in 2003, North Korea moved toward nuclear weapons.
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7. But they continued to hold out the possibility of negotiation. Thuggishly at times, but the possibility has been and is still there.
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8. What I don't understand is the motivation of those who would break up these stabilizing agreements.
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9. They say they don't want war, but they make war more likely. They claim they can win a better deal without negotiating.
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I would like to believe that they aren't dumb enough to want war. But they seem to want it. And their fans openly drool over the prospect.
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Replying to @wellerstein @CherylRofer
They seem to believe it won't impact them if war happens.
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