World Ends - Democrats blame Bush

North Korea announces that it has gone ahead and detonated a nuke. What do the Dems have to say? It's Bush's fault for refusing one-on-one talks. The Iraq war was wrong because it was "unilateral" meaning "without the U.N."

Remember next month, it's a whole lot easier to criticize than it is to actually deal with the issues. When you're a critic, you only have to say the other side should have done something different. The U.S. went to some pains to include all the local stakeholders in these talks, which is probably why Kim demanded unilateral talks. We didn't take him up on that because Clinton tried it that way, and they lied to him, promising to cease their nuclear weapons program.

Why is talking to them now any more likely to produce different results? Nobody in the administration has blamed this on Clinton, who did engage in talks, Hillary was out there loudly blaming Bush for not repeating her husband's folly.

Isaiah prophesied a time when people would cry, "Peace!" but there is no peace. You can talk with people like the North Korean regime forever, and they will view your willingness as weakness. Why do we not understand that? If we had negotiated longer with Hitler, would he have seen reason and given back Poland? Yet, the left continue to think that pacifying aggressors will work, even when they've demonstrated that they can't be trusted. The whole U.N. is based on this belief. It was a nice idea, but it wasn't realistic then and it has failed too many times now to waste more money on it.

Update: Michael Rubin agrees.