Opinion: Clinton's Korea Disaster

Crosswalk.com ^ | 1-10-03 | Gary Bauer

[cody32127]

As if we didn't have enough problems, this morning we are faced with the disclosure that North Korea has been secretly conducting a major nuclear weapons development program. Thank you, Bill Clinton.

No, I am not just trying to score cheap political points against the former president that I battled for eight years in Washington. The facts are clear.

The Clinton administration pursued a policy toward North Korea based on all the central bromides of 'feel good' liberalism. Faced with a dark rogue regime led by maniacs, Clinton and Secretary of State Madeline Albright decided that if we could just talk more to the paranoid communist dictators, give them money and help improve their economy, the "misunderstanding" between our two countries would be eliminated.

We poured billions of dollars of foreign aid into North Korea in the 90s. In fact, they were the largest aid recipient of any country in the Asia-Pacific region -- $6 billion dollars. Under an agreement signed in 1994, with the help of Jimmy Carter, we not only ponied up money, we provided them over 500,000 tons of fuel oil per year and agreed to help them build nuclear power plants!

And now today, we see the fruits of this "see no evil" foreign policy - the balance of power in Asia has shifted against us and the interests of our allies.

Will we learn anything from this? Will the Nobel Peace Prize Committee learn anything, or the U.N. bureaucrats, or the "peace at any price" crowd, or the "blame America first" gang? No, no, no, no and no.

But let's try to explain the lesson anyway: Peace and safety cannot be secured by signing worthless agreements, treaties or protocols with thugs. It didn't work with Hitler. It didn't work with Stalin. It hasn't worked with Saddam Hussein. In fact, it has never worked!

Leaders like Carter and Clinton, like Chamberlain before them, don't bring peace. They promote war by tempting evil men to conclude that we are weak and afraid.

Winning the peace is left to the Churchills, Reagans and Thatchers of the world - leaders willing to rally free people to confront clear and present danger.

[Peach]

President Bush was compared favorably to Winston Churchill in the days following 9/11 and Gary is one of the few who seem to remember that.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Good post. Thank you.

[Claire Voyant]

And now, Bill Richardson is meeting with the North Koreans!! As Bernie on Imus said, "he's probably giving them the plutonium they bought". Richardson is a BUFFOON!!

[Sam Cree]

"They promote war by tempting evil men to conclude that we are weak and afraid."

I think, in fact, they are weak and afraid, or at least weak and foolish. Clinton is additionally missing parts of a normal personality.

[Feckless]

"a dark rogue regime led by maniacs"

Kim or Bill? Both?

[anniegetyourgun]

The simple truth, simply put. The last president was a danger to all of America....on so many fronts.

[Quilla]

Steve Doosey (you know, Fox's weather guy who knows more about taxation than Tom Daschle) mentioned this morning that the nuclear power plant North Korea built will barely produce enough power to fuel itself.

[TiaS]

Imus is an "Axis of Evil".

[Dick Bachert]

Ahhhh -- yet MORE of the klintoon legacy. Looks like Willie will have to add another chapter.

This clown pulled more -- er -- dangerous stunts than about any other POTUS. Don't you long for the good old days when he was just pulling things over that oval office area sink?

Clintoon's book will be published by Alfred Knopf Publishing.

“Knopf” is 13th Century German for “ incredibly stupid buyer of other peoples’ garbage.” Knopf is a very old publishing house best known for such early classics as

“How to Enjoy The Inquisition” by Father Torquemada
“You Get My Point?” by Vlad the Impaler
“Guillotine Maintenance and Repair” by Citizen Robespierre

Three of their more recent offerings are “PeeWee Herman’s Movie Guide,” “Gary Condit’s Guide to Picking Up Chicks” and “Compared to Us, Ponzi Was a Freakin’ Choirboy” co-authored by Gary Winnick, Ken Lay and Terry McAuliffe.

All available in a dumpster or landfill near you!

[Fresh Wind]

Naah, he's not evil, just very, very boring.

[OldFriend]

If Colin Powell thinks Ricardson is the answer, we'll all be glowing sooner rather than later.

[cricket]

"They promote war by tempting evil men to conclude that we are weak and afraid."

Gary has nailed a fundamental truth about the 'real' world. . .but of course, Liberals cannot recognize 'evil'; since they live it as Liberalism. . .

[lonestar]

Clinton is additionally missing parts of a normal personality.

Which personality? I've counted three.

[Robe]

I really sick of all the worlds pissant dictators threating to have a war with the US.
I think we should adopt a policy which states: We will take you at your word. Declare war or the threat of war on the American people and we will preempt your A$$, and "make the Pebbles dance"

[OldFriend]

It's not that the pissants rant and rave against us....it's that they want us to ride to the rescue whenever they get in trouble.

[WatchNKorea]

"The Clinton administration pursued a policy toward North Korea based on all the central bromides of 'feel good' liberalism. Faced with a dark rogue regime led by maniacs, Clinton and Secretary of State Madeline Albright.....agreed to help them build nuclear power plants!"

[WatchNKorea]

"Clinton and Secretary of State Madeline Albright...
.....agreed to help them build nuclear power plants!"

"Clinton Bankrolled North Korea's Nuke Program"
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/17/80959

"Clinton Deal Gave N. Korea 100-Nuke-Per-Year Capacity"
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/19/114657

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Friend of HILLARY RODHAM =

HO CHI MINH
Communist North Korea
Communist Vietnam
Communist China