Joshua at One Free Korea is at it again. Read the following excerpts if you give a damn about U.S. policy toward Kim Chong Il, his nuclear sex toys, and Agreed Framework 2.0:
You could write the epitaph for the President Bush’s North Korea policies in six words: There are worse things than gridlock. Now that Agreed Framework 2.0 has reached its failure point and not even sympathetic media can still deny it, the New York Times reports that the same old factions have formed up to battle about the fruitlessness of dealing with Kim Jong Il.
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Well, this was about as predictable as the sunrise; still, can anyone deny that I am the Nostrafriggingdamus of Korea bloggers? This time, my predictive powers were eerie enough to border on the paranormal. Not that I mean to overstate this. Anyone intelligent enough to be reading this already knows that Robert Downey, Jr. can say no to crack longer than Kim Jong Il can keep an agreement. And unlike Kim Jong Il, Downey can probably manage ten whole minutes of abstention on his way home from rehab … unless he had the foresight to stash a rock in the ashtray of his limo.
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Bush is now right back where he started in 2001, except that North Korea’s nuclear capability, though still primitive, has advanced to the point of demonstration. [John] Bolton says, “It’s like groundhog day; we’ve lived through this before.”
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In case you’re keeping score, those who oppose this deal, or whose skepticism is tantamount to opposition to it, include John Bolton, of course, plus candidates John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson; influential Republican senators John Kyl (the Minority Whip), Sam Brownback, Charles Grassley, and Jim Bunning; and independent Joe Lieberman. (… and Larry Craig.) If Bush tried to ram legislation through Congress today to either de-list North Korea, ratify a deal, or appropriate funding for one, it might not survive an up-or-down vote. I wouldn’t have said that a month ago.
That’s just a sample from Joshua’s latest post on Agreed Framework 2.0. Go read the whole thing and don’t forget to follow the links. Great stuff, if you’re interested.
If you’re not interested, you’re an idiot.
Actually, I didn’t do too poorly myself in predicting the outcome of Agreed Framework 2.0. See my post from February 2007.
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