Of course the “big news” the last two days has been North Korea.
And boy, are those Democrats salivating over
this one! As if Mark Foley wasn’t enough, they smell blood and the sharks are circling.
They shouldn’t be.
Let’s not forget a bit of history here, ok? Three guesses, and the first two don’t count – who made a deal with North Korea that was supposed to “permanently” end their nuclear ambitions? And how durable was that deal, and when did the North Korean’s start cheating? Oh, and once we detected they were cheating, what was done about it – and by whom?
The Washington Post in an article today at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15200995/ of course is going after the “Axis of Evil” speech, and how this is horrible for Bush and the Republicans.
Uh, excuse me? You guys have some verve.
Don’t you remember that in 1994 (you know, when Herr Klinton was in office) a little meeting in Switzerland in which North Korea and the United States signed an agreement that was to end North Korea’s nuclear ambitions? What did the United States promise North Korea, and actually provide? Why that would be two nuclear reactors and easing economic sanctions. What did they actually
do?
That would be cheating on the deal from almost the very first day; a fact that the Clinton Administration
ignored for the next six years!It was Bush that tried to put the lid back on that coffee can. Unfortunately Clinton not only took it off, he threw it out, by failing to insist on tough verification measures and then ignoring the issue for six years hence. Once the Genie is out its damn hard to stuff it back in, and we should not be surprised that doing so has been somewhat less-than successful.
So now Kim Jung-Il apparently has nuclear weapons. He also has missiles. This is not a good combination, of course, although we can take some solace in the fact that the recent test of a missile that could have reached the west coast was a spectacular failure. Unfortunately Japan, China and South Korea get nothing of this, as his shorter-range missiles are known to be able to reach those nations.
(The reason I say “apparently” is that
there is some doubt about whether the blast really was nuclear – see, it’s somewhat tricky to actually make a nuke go “boom”, and we’re not entirely sure it did…..)
The upshot of all this is that if the electorate has more than a 10 minute attention span – which do seriously doubt – North Korea’s “test” is all the reason that anyone needs to never, and I do mean never, put another Democrat in power anywhere in our Federal Government..
Of course you won’t read
that in the “mainstream press”, nor will you see them remind you of who gave North Korea the ability to develop these weapons in the first place!
