The Bush Administration has now agreed to establish diplomatic ties with what it called an "Axis of Evil" nation. The link to the Reuters story is below.
So let me get this straight: Bush fucks around with attacking That Man Who Tried To Hurt My Daddy while Kim Jong Il, easily the wackiest national leader outside of Africa, revs up a weapons-grade nuclear program. First his administration denies that that's what's happening--by the time they admit it, it's a done deal, and NoKor has a genuine bargaining chip for the first time in its existence.
More below the fold.
Now, with the horse not only out of the barn but over the horizon, the administration agrees to trade, technology, and political concessions in a deal the terms of which probably aren't verifiable. But even if they don't end up giving the goodies because they can't verify compliance on the part of NoKor with the terms of the agreement, they're going to establish diplomatic relations--they're going to
acknowledge the legitimacy of a nation they listed as a part of the "Axis of Evil".
Let's recap, shall we?
Bush has had his ass kicked by a genuinely dangerous zealot who can realistically be considered now to possess--or be on the verge of possessing--weapons of mass destruction.
And he has been forced to kiss the ass of Kim in a last-ditch effort to prevent North Korea from developing a full-bore nuclear weapons program which could hold Japan, South Korea, and possibly over time even India and Australia hostage.
Wow: the John Bolton kiss-up, kick-down, on a global scale...and we're the ones on the bottom!
The incompetence of these people knows no bounds.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050919/ts_nm/korea_north_dc