The DPRK-Ethiopia Affair

Hasn't the Bush administration been arguing since 2002 that the North Korean regime is one of the world's greatest threates to international peace and security? From today's NYT:

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.

The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January in part because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive against Islamic militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the American policy of combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa.

Let's take a bet on how much purposeful obfuscation Powerline will need to engage in in order to defend this abomination of a policy.

By the way, remember how conservatives were heaping praise on the Ethiopians for defeating Islamic militants in Somalia? Looks like that's not working out so well.

Posted by Kingston