[TigerLikesRooster]

Bolton is right.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[panaxanax]

He sure is.

Hunter-Bolton 2008

[DB]

Yes Bolton is right.

The bad news just keeps on coming.

Hard to be very hopeful of the future.

[endthematrix]

"We actually pushed N. Korea into a corner, but this agreement would allow N. Korea to escape from the corner and repeat the games it used to play."

Unfortunately the end game was to have the Security Council have our back. I think the Administration saw the writing on the wall and figured to cut a strong deal now unilaterally, and put NK on record for a future (Democrat?) administration. This way W takes credit if it works, and if it fails, can pull a Clinton/Albright - or maybe the US will finally unify the mainland.

[sgtbono2002]

Bolton is right on the money ,certainly no fuel should be delivered until the destruction of the nuclear facilities are verified to be destroyed.

[edradour]

Captain Kangaroo, the great American Diplomat: "In my opinion, N. Korean regime cannot be changed but should be eliminated."

Bolton is Dead wrong, good thing he is irrelevant.

[joebuck]

Bolton may very well be right, but it seems a bit disloyal to undercut Bush when the President was so totally loyal to him and fought hard on his behalf.

[nuconvert]

"this agreement would allow N. Korea to escape from the corner and repeat the games it used to play."

yep.
It's the same with.
Maybe you could write him and explain why S.K. is reluctant to do anything about North.

[Steel Wolf]

Bolton is right, and not just about North Korea. His other point, about how it sends the wrong message to other countries, is 100% correct. What lesson is Iran supposed to take from this? What lesson is Saudi Arabia or Venezuala supposed to take from this?

Simple. Rope-a-dope works. North Korea has been playing this game for years, and the game works. What's to stop other nations from playing us like fools, when we so willingly let them?

[snowsislander]

I think it would have been better if Mr. Bolton had been appointed Secretary of State rather than Ms. Rice.

[bert]

Can you comment on the current state of Kim's health that might mean the agreement will be short lived simply because of his death?

[JimRed]

Bolton is right, yes; when has North Korea lived up to any agreement it ever made?

[alicewonders]

Bolton is correct. Newt Gingrich said this as well. This reminds me too much of another deal we made with N. Korea.

[TigerLikesRooster]

True Love Knows No Border

[SevenofNine]

I think we seeing replay of what happen during Clinton adminisation

[bray]

Talk softly but carry a big stick doesn't work when the Rats burn the stick.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[AmericanInTokyo]

SPOT ON CORRECT

I don't know HOW they are going to sell this to the American People. Bushbots (who might otherwise criticize a Clinton Administration had they pulled this kind of stunt) may uncritically bite the baited hook. Not me.

You ought to see the Japanese domestic analysis of this <>AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY FAILURE. Even North Korea celebrated their victory yesterday in the six party talks, just in time for Korean New Years, over Pyongyang Radio (monitored in Japan).

[dervish]

Want to see change? Bolton for Secretary of State.