Clinton & Carter Entwined In Embrace of History October 17, 2002

What we have in North Korea is another monumental Clinton administration screw-up dropped into George W. Bush's lap. We are only now beginning to see the real damage that the Clinton administration inflicted on this country and its position in the world. The examples run from September 11th to North Korea, from the Chinese being able to orbit ICMBs and put multiple warheads on each, all the way through to a newly nuclear India and Pakistan.

Those of us who thought that Clinton's legacy would be corruption and sleaze were only half right. It's going to be far worse. All those treaties, bilateral agreements and Rose Garden ceremonies were the actions of an appeaser that have seriously damaged our national security. I think Clinton just didn't want to face problems. He didn't want to do anything to stop his supposedly roaring economy, so he presided over a "nothing" administration.

When Bill Clinton ran in 1992 on the themes "putting people first" and "it's the economy stupid," hammering George H.W. Bush for spending too much time in foreign policy, I said, "You wait. When the history of this guy is written, his reputation and legacy are going to be done in by foreign policy snafus and nightmares because he was openly disdainful of it." He's a masterful spinner, so he blames the current administration for all the problems he left us. But that doesn't change the fact that this is his legacy, or that we confronted the North Koreans with evidence that they'd built nukes and forced them to admit it.

The bottom line is, before Clinton came to office, Pakistan and India did not have nuclear weapons. Now they do. Before he came to office, Red China was unable to target American cities with nuclear warheads. Now they can. Before he came to office, North Korea did not have nuclear weapons. Now they do. And while he was in office, he did nothing to stop Iraq from its nuclear weapons development. At least When Hitler Invaded Poland, Neville Chamberlain Admitted His Mistake

Clinton simply followed in the footsteps of another foreign policy luminary, the Nobel Appease Prize-winning Jimmy Carter. Carter ran to North Korea almost without permission, and saved Clinton from having to make a decision. (See audio link below.) Have you ever noticed that the left loves anti-American dictators like North Korea's and Cuba's and the PLO's, but they can't take pro-American dictators like the Shah of Iran?

Some of this stuff is just laughable. February 5, 2002's New York Times recounted Bill Clinton speaking after dinner one night at the Waldorf-Astoria at the World Economic Forum. "On North Korea, I have a totally different take," he said. "I figure I left the next administration with a big foreign policy win." Oh really? Clinton also gave a September 2000 speech at Georgetown where he claimed that stopping the proliferation of WMDs was his "very top priority."

You can hear me read more fanciful claims from Clinton's speech in the audio link below – such as claiming he'd kept Saddam completely in check with the embargo. That embargo is Swiss cheese! Why, the U.S. State Department has even caught Saddam exporting food - and you people blame the sanctions and not the dictator for starving his people! These people take any excuse to look at evil and not see it. So when Jimmy Carter called and said that Kim Il Sung was a cool guy, Clinton jumped at the chance to pass more impotent UN resolutions or sign another meaningless piece of paper.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2002

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And his wife is a senator.

Pity he didn't get his offices in the WTC, she might have been there with him that day...

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2002