Opinion: In today’s pages: Lessons for Pelosi, Palestine, and Rocky
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The editorial board wonders what North Korea will do next, now that its assets have been unfrozen:
[T]he money was the easy part. Much thornier are the negotiations about when, how and in what order North Korea will own up to and begin to dismantle its nuclear programs. It’s vital to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons that the United States and its allies try to agree on a roadmap for Pyongyang’s full nuclear disarmament. Further delays, distractions or failures now would be an implicit admission that North Korea has become a nuclear weapons state — and that the world is powerless to do much about it. Tehran will be watching the outcome.
The board criticizes politicians who are using new stem cell science to block further stem cell research, and it says L.A. residents must support Police Chief William J. Bratton if he is to have a successful second term.
On the op-ed page, the Shalem Center’s Jacob Savage argues for a ‘three-state solution’ for the Middle East, while UCLA’s Saree Makdisi explains why the West likes Fatah and why the Palestinians don’t. Columnist Ronald Brownstein thinks Speaker Nancy Pelosi could take a lesson from her predecessor, Newt Gingrich.
Letter writers respond to the exploits of City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo. Montrose’s Kathleen Boss notes, ‘maybe it’s a good thing to have celebrities around, if only to keep our local elected officials in check.’