What Will This Do To The Legacy?

The thought just occurred to me this morning that, amid all the hubbub over North Korea’s claim to have conducted its first test of a nuclear weapon – something that, if true, should be of grave concern to any inhabitant of planet earth – there has been a notable dearth of comments from one particular sector of American political life.

Of course, I’m willing to concede that I may have simply missed it – and I will happily read any corrections that anyone wants to send me – but as of yet I’m not hearing a lot of comment on this situation from Clinton Administration officials. I wonder why that might be.

Could it be that, while the test took place on the watch of the Bush Administration – a fact for which the current administration should rightly accept close scrutiny – the technological advances in North Korea that made the test possible were made during, and with the aid of, the Clinton Administration, with significant contributions made by Jimmy Carter in this regard?

The fact is that the Clinton administration was duped into a disastrous deal with the Kim Jong-Il regime by which the Korean dictator never intended to abide. And now that the “mainstream” media – which no longer tries to hide its love for Bill Clinton and disdain for George Bush – is so consumed by its desire to pin every ill in the world on Bush and the Republicans, it simply cannot afford to draw attention to the incompetence in the 1990s that gave the North Koreans a friendly nudge down the road to joining the nuclear club.

I wonder if Chris Wallace might be interested in pursuing some comment from the former President.