N. Korea: Foggy Bottom Apostate

WSJ ^ | 01/25/08

[TigerLikesRooster]

Foggy Bottom Apostate

January 25, 2008

Jay Lefkowitz, President Bush's special envoy for human rights in North Korea, has recently pointed out that our current approach to Pyongyang is failing. Lord help a diplomat who tells the truth.

Mr. Lefkowitz, growled Condoleezza Rice at a Tuesday press conference in Europe, "doesn't work on the six-party talks [on North Korea], he doesn't know what's going on in the six-party talks and he certainly has no say in what American policy will be in the six-party talks." For good measure, the Secretary added that she "would doubt very seriously that [the Chinese and Russians] would recognize" Mr. Lefkowitz's name.

In this Foggy Bottom version of the vanishing commissar, Mr. Lefkowitz is being written out of the Administration's North Korea policy for a speech he gave last week at the American Enterprise Institute. Noting that it has been more than two years since Pyongyang pledged to abandon its nuclear weapons program, and more than two weeks since it violated the latest deadline to disclose the full extent of that program, Mr. Lefkowitz observed that "it is increasingly clear that North Korea will remain in its present nuclear status when the Administration leaves office in one year."

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[newberger]

And this is in the Religion Forum because ????

[Pontiac]

On present course, Ms. Rice is setting President Bush up to spend his final year begging Kim to cooperate by offering an ever growing and more embarrassing list of carrots.

All the while Kim Jong Il continues his one sided war by other means against the US.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I could not post in the news forum somehow.
Strangely, afterward, the problem disappeared.
Sorry to cause convenience.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Correction: Sorry to cause inconvenience.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Condoleeza Rice, appeasing traitor, can SHOVE it!

[grey_whiskers]

Sorry to cause convenience.

That line should be prominently displayed in every insurance office, Dept. of Motor Vehicles, and IRS location in the country.

Cheers!

[TigerLikesRooster]

LOL!

[hinckley buzzard]

Chances are he now figures he can wait out this Administration and hope for better terms from President Clinton

Reached this exact conclusion months ago. What is going on with Rice? She sound more like Halfbright than ever.