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Well, the gargoyle of North Korea has finally proven, beyond dispute, where appeasement always leads. Thank You, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter (from Newsmax, way back in 2003):

The leftist media spin is that the current crisis in North Asia is the result of George W. Bush calling Pyongyang a member of the ‘axis of evil.’ In reality, the soft-line appeasement policy taken by Clinton against North Korea and China is what has led us to this point.

For example, former Clinton adviser Paul Begala, now serving as a talking head on CNN, claimed that the Clinton administration contained the threat from North Korea. Clearly, Mr. Begala missed the 1990s.

Of course, Mr. Begala simply forgot that Clinton’s military chief of staff testified in 1998 that North Korea did not have an active ballistic missile program. One week later the North Koreans launched a missile over Japan that landed off the Alaska coast.

During the early Clinton years, hard-liners and so-called conservative hawks advocated a pre-emptive strike to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons development before it could field an atomic bomb. Instead of taking the hard line, President Clinton elected to rely on former President Jimmy Carter and decided to appease the Marxist-Stalinist dictatorship.

Carter met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang and returned to America waving a piece of paper and declaring peace in our time. Kim, according to Carter, had agreed to stop his nuclear weapons development.

The Clinton appeasement program for North Korea included hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, food, oil and even a nuclear reactor. However, the agreement was flawed and lacked even the most informal means of verification.

In return, Kim elected to starve his people while using the American aid to build uranium bombs. The lowest estimate is that Kim starved to death over 1 million of his own people, even with the U.S. aid program.

You do know that Iran is next, right?

Coverage of North Korea’s Nuclear Test:
Michelle Malkin and here.
Hot Air
Neal Boortz
powerline
Hugh Hewitt
Stanley Kurtz at NRO
Fox News
Stop the ACLU

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