Another Fred Kaplan article…and this one's in the "must-read" category. It's about how the Bush administration has botched (and probably lied a lot about) relationships with another arm of the infamous "Axis of Evil." In this case, it's North Korea that's now more of a threat to us than before George W. and his mob began handling things.
I'm not enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton for President, either as someone who can win or should win. But I'm beginning to think she could get a lot of support, including mine, if she ran on a simple platform: "I'll appoint Bill as my Secretary of State and let him try to put all our foreign relations back the way they were when he was in office." With North Korea, it looks like the Bush team is now trying to close a weapons control deal very much like the one Bill C. put in place. That's the deal they and all their supporters denounced as "too weak" but the current version is weaker, and they're making it after North Korea built its nuclear arsenal, rather than before, like Bill did. Way to go, guys!