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Let's say you know someone who wears funny blue suits and doesn't share your views on politics. So you decide to stick this person in a cage and put him on a diet of bread and water until he agrees to change his wardrobe and adjust his thinking. And when he sits quietly on the cage-floor with his hands folded, you ignore him altogether and deal with other matters. But when he stomps his feet in anger or violently shakes the cage, you throw cold water on him or poke him in the back with a sharp stick.
How long do you think it'll take before your prisoner changes his clothes and comes around to [the] "exceptional" way of seeing things?
It's never going to happen, is it, because your whole approach is wrong. People don't respond positively to hectoring, intimidation and cruelty, in fact, they deeply resent it and fight back. And, yet,
this is exactly the way Washington has treated North Korea for the last 64 years. Washington's policy towards the DPRK is not comprised of "carrots and sticks"; it's sticks and bigger sticks.
It's entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.But the policy hasn't worked, has it, because now the North has nuclear weapons, which is
precisely the outcome that Washington wanted to avoid. So we don't even have to make the case that US policy is a flop, because the North's nuclear arsenal does that for us. Case closed!
So the question is: What do we do now?
Comment: They can call it whatever they like but Erdogan wouldn't have pursued this outcome if he wasn't the biggest recipient of the rewards.