I don't really agree with either candidate on this particular issue. A little closer to Obama now that he has started to refine his message a bit and it kind of backing out of his earlier comments in regard to meeting with no pre -conditions with some word play.

I got no truck with an administration having some level of talks with any of these guys (might be pushing it for a direct meeting with the POTUS). This is not to say that I think the US President should have meeting with them, nor that meeting with them should be very high on the to-do-list either.

On the flip side I don't have a big problem with completely ignoring them either. If the US goes down the ignore them path then we need to completely ignore them - not antagonize them in the press. Sometimes Bush and Hugo sound like a couple of school kids calling each other names.

As for the UN, I would not call them naughty, but the UN is certainly broken in that it is nearly useless when it comes to addressing the big issues. Hell if Russia had not buggered off for a bit in protest over who/how China was represented at the UN, then I'd say in 1950 things might have gotten so bogged down in the security counsel that little kim would probably be the dear leader of the entire peninisula. And there is like 100 security council resolutions in regard to Israel and lot of good that all that "deploring" and "condemning" has done anyone. On the plus side the NY economy benifits from the UN being located there.