Nuclear Idiocy

It's a brand new world, and people like "Aunt Madeleine" Albright are going to have the toughest time living in it.

Echoing her former boss on Tuesday, the former busser of Kim jong-Il attempted to blame the nuclear weapons North Korea has been developing and constructing for the past decade on the two-year-old Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"If I were Kim Jong Il, I would read the message of the invasion of Iraq," Albright told Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes.

That message, she said, was: "'If I don't have nuclear weapons, I get invaded. And if I do, I don't get invaded' – because we didn't invade the Soviet Union or China."

Now you know why this troll's derisive nickname is "Half-bright." We didn't invade the Soviet Union or Red China because they had nuclear weapons. We never had any intention of invading the Soviet Union or Red China. And if we had, we certainly could have done so in the four years after World War II when the United States had a nuclear weapons monopoly.

The reason we invaded Iraq was because of the stark lesson of 9/11, which showed beyond any shadow of a doubt that the confluence of terrorist networks, their state sponsors, and weapons of mass destruction was a mortal national security threat that had to be dealt with pre-emptively. It's the same reason why some sort of military action is inevitable against Iran if their entrance into the nuclear club is to be averted.

The reason we haven't invaded North Korea is sublimely simple: They had nuclear weapons before George W. Bush ever became president - courtesy of the Clinton administration, which is the bunch that had a chance to eliminate this threat back in late 1994/early 1995, and punted instead.

Just listen to Aunt Madeleine try to squirm out of her culpability for it:

"What we did during our watch was to freeze the nuclear program," she told Alan Colmes. "And I think intelligence un-skewed has shown that it is in the last three years that this nuclear capability of North Korea has emerged."

Well, quite obviously not, since the NKComms admitted in the fall of 2002 (i.e. before Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched) that (1) they have nukes and (2) they've been cheating on the "Agreed Framework" all along, meaning on her watch.

What's even better is Half-bright admitted as much as recently as last September:

"What they were doing, as it turns out, they were cheating," she told NBC's Meet the Press.

"The worst part that has happened under the Agreed Framework," Albright explained, was that "there [were] these fuel rods, and the nuclear program was frozen."

But because of North Korea's cheating, she said "those fuel rods have now been reprocessed, as far as we know, and North Korea has a capability, which at one time might have been two potential nuclear weapons, up to six to eight now, we're not really clear."

This pathetic spin has only one overarching purpose that I can discern: to insulate Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy against the gaping national security vulnerabilities that will dog it every step of the way. If her crowd can spend three years kneading the conventional wisdom into the stance that defending ourselves against terrorist WMD attacks by pre-empting rogue regimes like Iran, North Korea, and Saddamite Iraq is itself a national security threat - which is like saying that people would get far fewer headaches if they'd just stop taking so much Tylonel - and transform George Bush from the bag-holder for Bill Clinton's foreign policy fecklessness into The Man Who Turned The Whole World Against Us, her 2008 victory is all but assured.

Personally, I think Hillary's 2008 victory is all but assured. But it won't come from laughably weak buck-passing like this. Mrs. Clinton will be the beneficiary of the Bush Doctrine every bit as much as GDub was the victim of her husband's witless and reckless foolishness in trying to kick all the proverbial cans down the road so as to not spoil his "legacy." Absent another major terror strike, I don't think national security will be quite the front-burner issue it was in 2004, and her feigned toughness on illegal immigration will be of far more value in covering her ample posterior.

Don't be surprised if Aunt Madeleine ends up as Natasha's Secretary of Defense. And if a whole new wave of lame buck-passing ensues from there.