Albright on North Korea

My Conversation with Madeleine Albright: Let's Talk to Iran Just Like We Are with North Korea

To be frank, however, the Bush administration could have had this deal many years ago had it picked up where the Clinton administration left off. When the Bush administration came into office, we thought that North Korea had enough plutonium to make one or two weapons; now the best estimates are that they have enough to make six to eight bombs, if not more. And, of course, they have openly tested a nuclear device.

So, while an important step forward -- I don't want to denigrate this deal at all -- from the U.S. standpoint we are nonetheless worse off than eight years ago.

Even when making a massive change in the way they do things and attempting to correct years of mistakes, the best this administration can do is get us to a point where we're objectively worse off diplomatically than if they just decided to do nothing at the start of the first term.

But more importantly, she more or less agrees with me. You? She doesn't even know your blog fucking exists.