STILL HE HAUNTS US

Well, anybody who wanted to use Clinton as an example as a positive contrast to George Bush’s foreign policy (like a caller did today on CSPAN concerning the bloodless war in Serbia) better start looking at their shoes after today. North Korea announced it’s intention to declare itself a nuclear power and start nuclear testing.

If our memories aren’t too short, it was nine years ago that Clinton and his wannabe Jimmy Carter announced the 1994 Agreed Framework that was to make the Korean peninsula a nuclear free zone, like some kind of New England college town. Even as late as October 2000, BJ was saying this:

“We have made substantial progress, including the 1994 Agreed Framework, which froze North Korea’s production of plutonium for nuclear weapons under ongoing international inspections, and the 1999 moratorium on long-range missile tests.”

The 1994 Agreed Framework is a text-book case of Clinton diplomacy – that being big on promises, small on reality. This Framework gave Clinton all kinds of cover, Carter a Nobel Peace Prize and accomplished little than forcing the problem, now bigger and worse, onto the next guy. He did it in Iraq, he did it with Osama and he did it with Korea. A normal man wouldn’t be able to live with himself, but, as we’ve heard from so many liberals, he is no ordinary man.