It was an inflammatory speech that included Iraq and Iran as well as North Korea. How is a country and it's leadership to decide about any relationship with another country when they don't share a language and there are no reference points in their cultures?
This speech created a laundry list for confrontation. It was completely inappropriate and only set the stage for an illegal and immoral invasion into Iraq that killed many, many innocent people. What is Iran and North Korea to believe when there is profound tensions between them and the USA. The Bush White House wouldn't even talk to Iran. Some might say the tensions changed the hearts of the people to elect a diplomatic president to plead their case. Maybe. Maybe not. I think the Iranian people want peace and have for a long time since they were evicted from the country under the Shah.
When this divisive a speech is conducted from the podium of a joint session of Congress no other country or nation of people questions the words within as the policies of the USA.
Ah, yes; "North Korea arms itself with arms and WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION while it starves it's people." It was a lie, too. Why wouldn't North Korea rearm? The facts are very clear. North Korea acted to begin again it's nuclear program AFTER this insult to it's efforts to disarm and find a better path for it's people. This is memory in North Korea. This is how the government has measured itself in regard to it's foreign policy and national defense. This is why the North Koreans are so very sensitive to the words and images from the USA. It knows no other way or has no other measure than to decide in it's favor when exposed to this western culture.
This speech created a laundry list for confrontation. It was completely inappropriate and only set the stage for an illegal and immoral invasion into Iraq that killed many, many innocent people. What is Iran and North Korea to believe when there is profound tensions between them and the USA. The Bush White House wouldn't even talk to Iran. Some might say the tensions changed the hearts of the people to elect a diplomatic president to plead their case. Maybe. Maybe not. I think the Iranian people want peace and have for a long time since they were evicted from the country under the Shah.
When this divisive a speech is conducted from the podium of a joint session of Congress no other country or nation of people questions the words within as the policies of the USA.
Ah, yes; "North Korea arms itself with arms and WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION while it starves it's people." It was a lie, too. Why wouldn't North Korea rearm? The facts are very clear. North Korea acted to begin again it's nuclear program AFTER this insult to it's efforts to disarm and find a better path for it's people. This is memory in North Korea. This is how the government has measured itself in regard to it's foreign policy and national defense. This is why the North Koreans are so very sensitive to the words and images from the USA. It knows no other way or has no other measure than to decide in it's favor when exposed to this western culture.
