Geoff Metcalf
Monday, Oct. 16, 2006

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[American liberty] is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

– Judge Jon Newman, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

We are all responsible for our actions, what we do and don't do – unless you happen to be in politics, where selective memory loss and revisionism are pandemic.

Sen. Hillary Clinton has called criticism of her husband's presidential performance and failure to take adequate action to bridle North Korea from developing nukes "ridiculous."

"Nobody seriously can think that now, six years into the Bush administration, that the responsibility is Bill Clinton's. I think that's ridiculous," Sen. Clinton said Friday. Well, yeah, lady, some people DO believe that Bill Clinton is culpable for the North Korea mess ... but he ain't the Lone Ranger.

Hillary was half right and half hypocrite when she said, "It's part of a pattern by this administration that refuses to take responsibility for anything they do, anything that happens on their watch." Hel-lo?!?! Back atcha, babe.

When it comes to refusal to accept responsibility, the Clinton administration exceeds even the U.S. Grant administration:

• China
• Iran
• North Korea
• al-Qaida
• Russia
• Loral
• Monica
• Paula
• Dolly and company
• Not to mention Juanita Broaddrick and all the unnamed victims.

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Most pundits and pols seem either to forget or don't know that the U.S. is STILL at war with North Korea. Even North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Pak Gil-yon said, "If the United States increases pressure upon the Democratic People's Republic of Korea persistently, the DPRK will continue to take physical countermeasures, considering it as a declaration of war."

I believe before you can declare a war you have to end the last one. Notwithstanding assorted agreements, truces, extensions et al., the U.S./U.N. war with North Korea never ended!

• A cease-fire was established on July 27, 1953.
• The 1953 Korean War armistice remains a major example of an armistice which has not yet been followed by a peace treaty. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice ]
• The demilitarized zone remains the most heavily defended border in the world.

Bush and others have blamed the Clinton administration for attempting to head off that country's nuclear ambitions through direct talks with Chairman Kim Jong Il. Sen. John McCain slapped at Hillary for denouncing Bush's policies toward Pyongyang.

"I would remind Senator Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration's policies that the framework agreement her husband's administration negotiated was a failure," McCain said Tuesday.

Yes, and it was a failure because North Korea LIED. Clinton bargained (however badly) in good faith, but he 'should' have known that Pyongyang would renege on the deal because they always have.

It was classic 'Scorpion and the Frog' stuff ... kinda like Clinton's vow of fidelity. Despite the help and service the frog was providing, the scorpion stung the frog because he was a scorpion.

Hillary told reporters she was mystified over GOP efforts to deflect criticism of Bush. "It's almost hard to believe how unwilling they are to own what happens during their administration," she said.

Gosh-oh-gee-golly! Did she really say "how unwilling they are to own what happens during their administration"? Give the lady points for chutzpah!

The Clinton administration's "willingness" to accept their having enabled the Chicoms, the North Koreans, the Iranians, al-Qaida, and the bogeyman is something I must have missed.

When Victor Chernomyrdin was caught in violation of the Gore-McCain Act (which forbade certain trade with Iran), Victor asked Al "not to tell Congress" ... and he didn't! [ http://www.fas.org/news/iran/1997/970423-iran-wt.htm] I'm still waiting for the mainstream media to report that.

The North Korean situation is a result of the cumulative systemic failed U.S. policy. When the cease-fire was signed in 1953, an actual for real peace agreement could have/should have been mandated. It wasn't, and that failure was never corrected in subsequent administrations.

So, when the GOP rips the Dems and the Democrats rip the Republicans for what they could have/should have done to prevent the disaster we currently face, I say a pox on both your houses.

The solution to the diminutive crazy man leading North Korea has been (and remains) China. I repeat, I repeat, if China had been the least bit interested in chilling North Korea's jets (and nukes), they could have done it in a New York minute (and they still could). (See: Warfare in Space.)

They didn't. They' haven't. And they won't. And the why is not a big secret: because it is not in their strategic best interest to do so.

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