"In role as envoy, Tufts dean carries hard-earned lessons" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | May 26, 2009
MEDFORD - Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth helpfully provided US helicopters for Marcos and his wife, Imelda, to flee the presidential palace....
US policy makers are deeply at odds over what to do about North Korea. The hermetic communist nation, led by Kim's cultish family dynasty, defied the world and exploded its first nuclear device in 2006. Last month it fired a long-range rocket over Japan, which fizzled.
Then how much of a threat can they really be?
Two decades of intensive negotiations have broken down repeatedly in acrimony and ambiguity....
"Bosworth managed to create a place where even North Koreans and South Koreans could talk to one another," said Leon Sigal, a North Korea specialist at the Social Science Research Council.
After we get out of the way, right?
Sigal recalled one event where North and South Koreans were "off in a corner . . . telling jokes to each other." Sigal said he worries that the Obama administration team has a number of holdovers from President Clinton's efforts on North Korea.
Morton Abramowitz, Bosworth's coauthor of numerous books and articles and a retired US diplomat, then in charge of intelligence for the State Department, worked closely with Bosworth in the Philippines as well as more recently on North Korea....
Need I even say it?
Bosworth, 69, was born on a small farm in western Michigan, near Grand Rapids (and grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, though he has diplomatically joined Red Sox Nation after a stint as a Yankees fan)....
Who GIVES a F*** whether he is a SOX FAN or not?!!!!
No wonder the Globe is tanking!
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