To: The Dallas Morning News
Date:  June 21, 2006
Subject: North Korea 
Result: not printed (a version of this letter printed by Time magazine, Aug. 7)

Dear Editor,

Concerning the possibility that North Korea is about to fire a test missile, I still don't understand why President Bush can't invite Kim Jong Il out to the ranch and talk to him about nuclear arms and missiles and everything else – as I suggested in my unprinted letters to the editor dated 1-21-04 and 1-14-03, on my web site, radicalview.com.  The idea of reaching out to our enemies – in the spirit of "keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer" – is also presented in my letter dated 9-30-01.

I believe he could accomplish things man to man and leader to leader that could not be done any other way. What does the President have to lose by trying?

Of course it's not going to happen, though, because that would not be Old Think – which is the only kind of Think that President Bush is going to do. He would prefer to let Kim Jong Il shoot his missile and then spend huge amounts of money and resources responding, as well as add more fuel for general instability in the world.

Thank you, John Vehon