by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 22, 2003

Is the War Party setting up President Bush for a charge of having carried off an Asian Munich? So it would appear.

In a bylined piece by John McCain in The Weekly Standard (”Don’t Appease Pyongyang”), Bush is warned: Do not return to the status quo with North Korea that existed from the Clinton-Carter Agreed Framework of 1994 – prior to last fall’s discovery that Kim Jong Il has been operating a secret uranium-enrichment program.