MSNBCW Hardball With Chris Matthews March 5, 2013
These diplomatic niceties. Why isnt this the best time to call, after north korea has done something that we really really dont want and we really want them to stop doing it. The soviet missiles were in cuba, and so president kennedy was communicating as directly with Nikita Khrushchev as he could. He didnt say, im not going to talk to him now, now that hes done something that bothers me. The soviet union and the United States were two great powers vying for global control. North korea is a small state that exists through extortion, by misbehaving and trying to extract resources from other nat...