Broken promises further decrease US diplomatic influence

[DavidByron]

America tends to go to war as its first option and negotiate as its last because it is militarily strong but diplomatically weak.  US diplomacy usually consists of threatening military action, trade wars or bribes, usually in the form of suspending previous ongoing attacks on other countries.  Bribery has been the only positive alternative for American diplomacy but it is hitting a problem:  America just doesn't live up to its promises and countries are refusing to believe American diplomats offers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61614-2002Oct21.html

Story about how the US is attempting to bribe Russia to not help build a nuclear power station in Iran by offering to suspend the trade war it has had with Russia by refusing to allow export of nuclear waste to Russia.

The Americans told the Russians that if they cut off all avenues of nuclear proliferation to Iran, the Bush administration would work to lift restrictions on the import of spent nuclear fuel to Russia, officials from both countries said today. Russia believes it can make billions of dollars by storing and reprocessing radioactive material from around the world, but it has been blocked by the United States.

So the US seeks to prevent free trade to Iran by Russia by offering a bribe to stop preventing free trade with Russia from all over the world.  This outright policy of piracy is what constitutes American diplomacy.  The problem is that Russia just doesn't believe America will follow through.

the suggested deal appeared to be foundering, at least in part because of the mistrust engendered by what Moscow perceives as the broken U.S. promises of the past year.  In an interview today, Yuri Bespalko, a spokesman for the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry, noted that the United States has not lived up to its commitment to remove Jackson-Vanik trade restrictions on Moscow, made last year after Russian President Vladimir Putin threw his support behind the U.S.-led war on terrorism

Broken promises by America seem to be behind the North Korean nuclear program too.

A weakened diplomatic power will mean the US has to further rely on its military to get what it wants.  No wonder North Korea wants a nuclear bomb as a deterent.

[DavidByron]

As this article states, despite US media regularly repeating Bush's lies, North Korea did NOT break any treaty obligation or agreements made with the US, and certainly didn't "admit it has" as the media has been saying.  On the other hand the Americans broke the deal from day one as far as I can see.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29431

So, in 1994, Clinton offered North Korea a multibillion dollar bribe; the so-called US-IAEA-DPRK Agreed Framework to rejoin the NPT.

In accepting the bribe, the North Koreans did agree to stop producing weapons-grade plutonium, and to eventually subject Agreed Framework activities to the IAEA-NPT regime. But, they didn't promise not to enrich uranium. So, they did. Technically, as far as the Agreed Framework is concerned, the North Koreans don't seem to have committed a foul.