Sunday, March 20, 2005
Surely there's a way to blame this on the CIA.
According to a story in Sunday's Washington Post, the U.S. lied to Asian allies, blaming North Korea for nuclear aid actually provided by Pakistan:
In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.Pretty clear what the M.O. is, right? Just what is there to say about this?
But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride -- which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium -- to Pakistan. It was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that sold the material to Libya. The U.S. government had no evidence, the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction.
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Pretty clear what the M.O. is, right? Just what is there to say about this?
Applying the Clintonian standard, I think the answer is that the ends justify the means, no?
Applying the Clintonian standard, I think the answer is that the ends justify the means, no?
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: 11:12 AM 
The ends are not looking so hot either, now that our allies know we've been lying.
Assuming the end is the destruction of the communist dictatorship in N.K., it doesn't look any less hot than before. It's not a matter of "if", but "when", much like when the late great President Ronald Wilson Reagan embarked on destroying the Soviet Union, despite the opinion of many/most, including some on the right, who thought it couldn't be done.
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Assuming the end is the destruction of the communist dictatorship in N.K., it doesn't look any less hot than before. It's not a matter of "if", but "when", much like when the late great President Ronald Wilson Reagan embarked on destroying the Soviet Union, despite the opinion of many/most, including some on the right, who thought it couldn't be done.
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