The Mandarin and the Empress's New Clothes :: Power Line

Last month AFP reported on remarks by Bush administration special envoy for human rights in North Korea Jay Lefkowitz at an American Enterprise Institute forum (the text of Lefkowitz's remarks is accessible here). Lefkowitz candidly acknowledged the dead end the administration has reached with North Korea.

Secretary Rice reacted to Lefkowitz's remarks as though he had asserted that the empress wears no clothes. Rice dressed Lefkowtiz down as a fool who was too benighted to observe the administration's fine new policy threads. In a remarkable postscript, Claudia Rosett discovered that the State Department sent Lefkowitz's speech down the memory hole. In the various reports on Rice's comments on Lefkowitz, however, Rice has cited no fact that belies his observations.

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