Ambassador Bolton’s article in the WSJ gives the kind of clear-eyed exposition of the negotiations with North Korea that his many admirers have come to esteem, all the more for an unwavering devotion to the truth all too rare from any public figure in America these days. He neatly exposes the mind-bending policy contortions, to say nothing of eviscerations of past Bush Administration policy, currently being played out by the Bushies themselves – a pathetic, seemingly self-imposed, autodafé. But why? And at whose behest? Appeasement at any cost seems to be the order of the day, and Mr. Bolton gives us chapter and verse on the U.S. intra-governmental side of the equation.
To complete the picture of the chute we seem to be greasing for ourselves in these negotiations with Kim, there’s another great article in today’s WSJ that need’s to be read, and then read again, Kim Jong Il’s Word in the Review & Outlook section of the Opinion Page. “Kim’s Word” looks at the negotiations from an international perspective and places them deftly in the matrix of understanding we should be considering given the ongoing Kimian developments at the U.N.