Kerry faults Bush on North Korea

Kerry says failure to deal with regime led to nuclear threats...as if Clinton dealt with the DPRK any better? Or Bush 41 or Reagan? For whatever combinations of reasons, we haven't had a consistent policy dealing with North Korea in the past 20 years; I wonder what Kerry supposed we should do about them.

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Putin Moves to Increase Power

Citing Effort to Fight Terror, Vladimir Putin has put forth a plan to return to the days of Soviets choosing the political leaders of each country, and each Soviet answerable only to the President rather than to the citizenry.

Under Mr. Putin's proposals, which he said required only legislative approval and not constitutional amendments, the governors or presidents of the country's 89 regions would no longer be elected by popular vote but rather by local parliaments â” and only on the president's recommendation.

Sounds an awful lot like a return to pre-1992 to me...

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