CAMBRIDGE, England -- If it weren't for the fact that the lives of several million people are at stake it could be fun watching the game of diplomatic poker being played by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and U.S. President George W. Bush. Those lives are at stake, however, as is the future stability of East Asia.
Last month, a "White House spokesman" said wearily that he expected that it would not be long before someone started saying that the United States started it. OK, so let me say it: the U.S. started it. Or to be more exact, the Bush administration started it.
They started it the day Bush was inaugurated and came into power with what Washingtonians called the "ABC foreign policy."