Ezra Klein, commenting on the recent Kyl-Lieberman amendment, makes this great point: The Senate’s adoption of the Lieberman/Kyl amendment designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “terrorist group” isn’t merely embarrassing, it’s counterproductive. Designating the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group — which in contemporary American terms means they’re a target — makes it all the more important [...]

KOB-TV: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s visit to North Korea appears to be yielding unexpected fruit. Richardson, part of a bipartisan delegation dispatched to North Korea to return remains of U.S. MIAs, appears to have secured a concession from the communist state on its developing nuclear weapons program. Monday, a North Korean nuclear arms negotiator [...]

Via Matt Yglesias (who wrote about the Richardson candidacy earlier this week) comes this Richardson-penned column: The recent tentative agreement with North Korea over its nuclear program illustrates how diplomacy can work even with the most unsavory of regimes. Unfortunately, it took the Bush administration more than six years to commit to diplomacy. During that [...]