Posted on 04/15/2008 8:53:09 AM PDT by ventanax5
President George W. Bush is fond of comparing himself to Ronald Reagan. But as he meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Washington this week, his policy regarding North Korea's nuclear weapons program looks more like something out of Bill Clinton's or Jimmy Carter's playbook.
In dealing with the Soviet Union on arms control, Reagan was famous for repeating the Russian phrase, "Doveryai, no proveryai" (trust, but verify). Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly once complained to Reagan, "You use that phrase every time we meet." To which Reagan smilingly replied, "That's because I like it so much."
This administration appears to have forgotten that concept altogether. Although the Six-Party Talks have been sliding into dangerous territory for some time, the Bush administration has repeatedly said that North Korea's complete, verifiable disclosure of its nuclear program was a sine qua non of any deal. No longer.
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Kim Jong Il: Now you see, the changing of the worrd is inevitabre!
Lisa: I'm sorry, it's what?
Kim Jong Il: Inevit, inevitabre.
Lisa: One more time.
Kim Jong Il: [shouts] INEVITABRE! Things are inevitabrey going to change! G*ddamnit, open your f*cking ears!
North Korea isn’t getting what it deserves when it comes to nukes.
They are shipping stuff over to Iran and Syria like the stuff Israel took out last year in northeast Syria.
North Korea can’t be trusted for squat and yet the charade goes on.
Is this all for China’s benefit?
Pres. Bush looks weaker by the day. One day he surrenders to North Korea, and the next he surrenders to Al Gore and the eco-Marxists. What a loser.
President Delivers State of the Union Address:
"...Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th. But we know their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens..."
--George W. Bush State of the Union Address, Jan. 29, 2002
Bush blasts Obama's foreign-policy stance:
...Bush teed off on the notion of meeting with foreign dictators when it was posed in a question about "what is lost by talking with those with whom we disagree?"
"What's lost by embracing a tyrant who puts his people in prison because of their political beliefs? What's lost is it'll send the wrong message. It'll send a discouraging message to those who wonder whether America will continue to work for the freedom of prisoners," he said. "It'll give great status to those who have suppressed human rights and human dignity."
Bush defended his close personal relationship with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
"I learned that it's important to establish personal relations with leaders even though you may not agree with them -- certain leaders," said Bush...
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