North Korea Scores Victory: Off Terror List

The WSJ said it best this morning about the U.S. removal of North Korea from its state sponsors of terrorism list. (How do you say appeasement in Korean?)

Kim Jong Il, despite having broken every disarmament promise he's ever made, has thus managed to persuade another U.S. President that he's serious about giving up his nuclear program. President Bush's agreement sends this message to Iran and other rogue states: Go nuclear and your political leverage increases.

It appears that President Bush is now listening to his Democrat and media critics - and with it, he and Secretary of State Rice will undermine every positive foreign policy initiative undertaken over the last 8 years. It also will virtually guarantee an Israeli attack on Iran later in the year since Israel now knows it can't trust its U.S. allies.