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CNN is reporting that, among other things Condoleezza Rice is saying the “We must remind North Korea that a positive path remains open to it through the six-party talks.”

I suppose this is much like how the bully who used to ask for your lunch money on the school bus offered you a “positive path” … you give up your lunch money, and you don’t get your brains beaten out.

Let’s be frank here … the US and/or the UN (or anybody else) trying to tell North Korea they can’t have nukes is nothing but international bullying. Yeah, Kim Jong Il isn’t the most stable guy in the world. Yeah, he doesn’t like us. Yeah, he might well pass them on to other people. But … since when do we have the right to tell North Korea what it can and can’t do?

We only have that right because we have a strong enough military to lean on people. Venezuela, for instance, doesn’t get to tell the US what to do (as much as Hugo Chavez would like to think they do), because they can’t beat up on us.

If the nuclear weapons become as commonplace as machine guns, big nations like the US can’t exert as much influence on the rest of the world. That is the bottom line.