Crazies of the World Unite

Apologies for the unannounced absence over the last few days.  The campaign schedule (*plug*) has kept me pretty well sidelined lately.

Poor timing, given the spate of recent developments along the Axis of Evil.  In the wake of widespread condemnation of North Korea's apparent nuclear test, our buddy Aquavelvajad had determined the incident was - you guessed it - America's fault.

Iranian state radio Monday blamed North Korea's reported nuclear test on U.S. pressure, accusing Washington of "humiliating" the impoverished communist country.

"Not only did the United States not lift the sanctions it had imposed on North Korea, it even increased the diplomatic pressure. Such pressure finally led North Korea to conduct its nuclear test," Iranian state radio said in a commentary.

"North Korea's nuclear test was a reaction to America's threats and humiliation," it said.

As Hot Air  points out, American foreign policy may have contributed to North Korea's run-up to unofficial nuclear status, but it was foreign policy directed by a different President.

17 April, 2000

North Korea's nuclear production capacity will increase from a dozen nuclear bombs a year to 65 a year by 2010, thanks in large part to American taxpayer money, two renowned U.S. nuclear scientists told congressional leaders last week.

North Korea observers have long suspected the communist dictatorship is using Western humanitarian aid to starving North Koreans to feed Kim Jong Il's million-man army.

But an aid policy initiated by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to finance two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea puts the isolated communist country on the fast track in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, William R. Graham and Victor Gilinsky told members of the House Policy Committee.

North Korea's missile proliferation has accelerated dramatically since the Clinton-Gore administration began giving aid to the regime in 1994.