The reporter makes it clear that the North Koreans were building bombs even as Albright was smiling for the cameras with Dear Leader Kim. She looks like an absolute fool now. In response to this, the one guy says the real purpose of Albright's visit had to do with missiles (as though they stopped those), and the next one says that without missiles, the bombs aren't much good. That's just lame. In light of the fact that the Nokors built the missiles too (and shot one over Japan while Clinton was still president), their whole act just sounds stupid. It's clear from this article that the Clinton foreign policy team got snookered. The Nokors were building bombs and missiles, and Clinton was pretending that he and Jimmy Carter had solved the problem. Now the Clinton guys have the nerve to say that they have "serious problems" with how the Bush Administration is handling this? It is to laugh. I don't buy for a minute that the military option has been taken off the table. Powell is entirely too obvious about saying "nice doggie" in this case. He and Bush are both walking very softly here. I smell a Big Stick coming. Powell can afford to be nonchalant about what Kim might do in three months because he knows that Kim isn't going to be there in three months. There is no way Bush is going to let that guy get his hands on 30 or 40 nuclear weapons. No frigging way. |
I don't see this as being too trashy. It seems to me the Clinton-era officials come off sounding pretty lame.