Bush caves on North Korea
There’s been plenty of saber rattling and bold talk about forcing North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, but after a 6 year standoff, Bush has decided to give in to Kim Jung Il’s demands. The western media is characterizing the new developments as a “breakthrough”, but, in fact, Bush has retreated on every issue of consequence. It is as close to a total foreign policy failure as one can possibly imagine. Nothing has been achieved. The bottom line is this; Kim refused to budge from his original position, while Bush completely capitulated on his.
The new agreement will drop US sanctions against the North and stop “freezing” their foreign banks accounts, a violation of international law. Kim will be expected to cease his nuclear activities at the Yongbyon reactor and allow inspectors from the IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog agency, to resume their work.
Kim agreed to all of these conditions 10 years ago; his position has never changed. Only Bush has backed-down.
 So our “commander in chief”…our “decider”…our “war president” got played…by this guy:
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Look at it this way, Bush didn’t get a worse deal than Clinton managed, oh, other than the whole “now this little nutball has nukes” aspect. Pathetic.
