Posted on 10/11/2006 12:49:35 AM PDT by John Carey
North Korea's declared nuclear bomb test program will increase the incentives for other nations to go nuclear, will endanger security in the region and could ultimately result in nuclear terrorism. While this test is the culmination of North Korea's long-held aspiration to become a nuclear power, it also demonstrates the total failure of the Bush administration's policy toward that country. For almost six years this policy has been a strange combination of harsh rhetoric and inaction.
President Bush, early in his first term, dubbed North Korea a member of the "axis of evil" and made disparaging remarks about Kim Jong Il. He said he would not tolerate a North Korean nuclear weapons program, but he set no bounds on North Korean actions.
The most important such limit would have been on reprocessing spent fuel from North Korea's reactor to make plutonium. The Clinton administration declared in 1994 that if North Korea reprocessed, it would be crossing a "red line," and it threatened military action if that line was crossed. The North Koreans responded to that pressure and began negotiations that led to the Agreed Framework. The Agreed Framework did not end North Korea's aspirations for nuclear weapons, but it did result in a major delay. For more than eight years, under the Agreed Framework, the spent fuel was kept in a storage pond under international supervision.
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Good for you: Thanks.
Clearly - it's Clinton's fault.
So the author admits Clinton's Agreed Framework was a failure but insists it slowed down Li'l Kim's nuke program by switching him from plutonium to uranium. It's just that Bush so disrespected the Chia pet that he just had to crank things up again.
I at least not that unlike the other article in yesterday's Post that this writer does not suggest with a straight face that all we need to do is just be nice to Kim and give him everything his little heart desires.
. . .another, Reason-impaired Liberal gives witness to the toll of mind-numbing/judgment-eroding Political Correctness. . .
"So the author admits Clinton's Agreed Framework was a failure but insists it slowed down Li'l Kim's nuke program by switching him from plutonium to uranium. It's just that Bush so disrespected the Chia pet that he just had to crank things up again"
General Tommy Franks stated exactly what the clintoon plan for north korea was...he called it, "kick the can down the road" philoosphy...in other words, exactly what clinton and his dope albright did...appease the little jerk in north korea with food/money/light water nuke technology and have it become someone else's problem down the road...of course ten years later...Bush inherited the problem....now the msm and lib/dems (one & the same) are trying to blame Bush!!!!
I wonder how many of the readers of the Washington Post realize that being the Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1997 means you were Clintons Secretary of Defense and, therefore, have a reason to blame someone else for the majot military crises facing us today?
Team clinton is in full revisionist history mode. The msm will tell the same lies and the sheep will blame President Bush for the dog eating porno king acquireing nukes.
Kim Jong Il and the Democrats spout the same line of direct talks between the US and North Korea.
For now at least, there's wide agreement on sanctions against North Korea, not the Clinton Debacle, Part 2.
Welcome to FreeRepublic, brother!
Does the Washington Post get their columns from the DU or does the DU get their talking points from the Washingto Post.
That is the question.
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