QUOTES THAT COME BACK TO HAUNT – AT 8:54 A.M. ET:  We note, in the light of North Korea's claim that it has the hydrogen bomb, that we had an...er...agreement with that nation negotiated under a guy named Clinton.  (Seems he's back in the news.)  That was in 1994.  Here's what President Clinton said then, from the Jerusalem Post:

In 1994, North Korea signed a nuclear agreement with the US, under the administration of former US president Bill Clinton. He said at the time that the deal meant "North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.”

Clinton said that the “United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations."

Twelve years later, in 2006, North Korea detonated its first underground nuclear explosion.

COMMENT:  As they say, a lesson from history.  I hope Clinton's quote is used against Hillary in the upcoming campaign.  She bought into that childlike thinking when she was secretary of state.

The nuclear agreement with North Korea failed.  We never stood up to North Korea's violations.  The nuclear agreement with Iran is already failing, as Iran blatantly tests nuclear-capable ICBM's.  Our reaction is meekness.  The only thing we seem to have learned from our failure with North Korea is how to fail again, more quickly this time.

January 6, 2016