"Clientitis at the State Department"

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea [banning the purchase of weapons from that country] 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.

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Since the Sept. 11 attacks, as the administration has made counterterrorism its top foreign policy concern, the White House has sometimes shown a willingness to tolerate misconduct by allies that it might otherwise criticize, like human rights violations in Central Asia and antidemocratic crackdowns in a number of Arab nations.

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North Korea conducted its first nuclear test on Oct. 9, and the Security Council resolution, adopted less than a week later, was hailed by President Bush as “swift and tough,” and a “clear message to the leader of North Korea regarding his weapons programs.”

  NY Times article

And now he gives the nod to a deal that violates the resolution he pressed the UN to make. Seems more like a mixed message than a clear one.

We make the rules; we can break them. Good is good when we say it's good. And evil is evil when we say it's evil.

Because, we own the world.

And by we, we mean Bush and Cheney.