Can we get the ball back?

Shocking to the reliably stupid American left is North Korea's threats of nuclear war if the United Nations enforces a blockade on the export of North Korean missile technology to Iran and Syria, the export of which violates Nobel Prize-winning agreements with freelance diplomat Jimmy Carter not to do so in exchange for $4 Billion from the Clinton administration to build the nuclear reactors that armed North Korea with nuclear weapons in the first place.

As early as 1998, four years after the agreement with North Korea, the Senate Foreign Relations committee considered cutting off the $4 Billion nuclear reactor deal with North Korea because of blatant violations of the Agreed Nuclear Framework. Over Republican objections, Democrats in support of President Clinton pushed through a bill to continue funding North Korea's nuclear program despite the violations of that agreement. Moron watchers may recall our Vice-President Joe Biden in 2002, when he was still a Senator and senior member of the Foreign Relations committee, fiercely criticizing President Bush's inclusion of North Korea in his "Axis of Evil" speech, stating an unfamiliarity with any violations by North Korea.

As frightening as it is to contemplate that the Democratic Party's "foreign policy expert" Joe Biden can't recall important foreign policy discussions that transpired under his Commitee's guidance a mere four years before lipping off in defense of North Korea's Stalinist regime in 2002, it's more frightening that Biden is now a institutional voice that guides the development of foreign policy within the Obama administration.

In October 2000, Secretary of State Madeline Albright went to North Korea to ask them pretty please to stop exporting missile technologies to state sponsors of terrorism, and personally presented Dear Leader Kim Jong-il with a hand-autographed Michael Jordan NBA basketball to show that the United States wanted to be taken seriously.

It's too late to stop North Korea from acquiring President Clinton's $4 Billion nuclear weapons business starter kit with Joe Biden's help. But before North Korean nuclear weapons begin killing people, can we get that basketball back?