Kim Jong Il seems to be setting off nukes, raising embarrassing questions?

In 1994, Clinton got Jimmy Carter and The Fatherly leader Kim to work out a terrific deal. Under the terms of the ''agreed framework,'' we gave North Korea all sorts of bribes, more than $5 billion worth of oil, two nuclear reactors and lots of high technology. In return we got the promise that they would be nice and not make bombs. They took the bribes and (Surprise!), built nukes. This wasn't difficult, inasmuch as the 1994 deal permitted the North Koreans to evade weapons inspectors for the next five years.

The New York Times hailed the agreement as ''a resounding triumph.'' While Republicans like John McCain said, Are you crazy they`ll build nukes!

North Korea cheated on the agreement before the ink was dry and spent the next 7 years working to produce at least 3 to 8 bombs by 2001.

Now we have to negotiate with a mad man who has nukes and can blow away any Army, Navy, and Seoul S Korea, killing 10 million S. Koreans. While democrats blame Bush? Will liberals never learn?

Kim Jong Il seems to be setting off nukes, raising embarrassing questions?house call

There is probably blame enough to go around, but it should have been clear from the outset that anybody who would trust Kim Jong Il to return a used piece of toilet paper was an idiot. The more salient question is, what do we do now? The answer depends on China, which doesn't really want to rock the boat (they find the idea of a zillion refugees swarming north across the Yalu to be appalling, and one can hardly blame them) but does not like the idea of NK nuclear weapons any more than we do.