In a prime example of political hypocrisy, the nation’s Democratic leaders wasted no time in lampooning the president for his policy vis-à-vis North Korea. If the Democrats are to be believed, George Bush test detonated the North Korean nuclear device himself. Leaders from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on down complain that Bush’s refusal to commit to two-party talks with Kim Jong Il’s regime led to the Korean nuclear test.

Such criticism, however, is the height of hypocrisy. After all it was the party of appeasement that allowed Kim to develop the bomb in the first place. In 1994 President Clinton and his special emissary, Former President Carter, negotiated the first agreement with North Korea’s founding tyrant, Kim Il Sung, which led to a series of nuclear transfers to Korea. In exchange the Stalinist regime agreed not to pursue its own nuclear program.

In 2002 it became apparent that this agreement wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on, just like every other policy of appeasement from the Betrayal at Munich to the present. Korea secretly and illegally, violated its treaty agreements and developed a nuclear weapons program, later claiming such weapons were necessary.

As the party of appeasement, the Democrats shoulder a sizeable burden for the Korean nuclear menace, but like the true demagogues they have turned out to be in recent years, in true Huey Long fashion, they have turned their failures into criticism. While today’s leftists argue (in retrospect, of course) that the US should have pursued direct two-party talks, in spite of their frequent criticism that the US should defer to the world community in international negotiations, as the president has attempted to do with the six-party talks, apparently the Democrats aren’t the internationalists they claim to be.

In truth, this latest round of leftist criticism is little more than Monday morning quarterbacking and underscores the inherent failure of appeasement, the bedrock of democratic strategies from Carter onward….
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