Rahm Emanuel: In 1994, Bill Clinton’s Security Team Told Him to Bomb North Korea, Now, We Have a Nuclear North Korea

COLLINS: “Well, I mean, and they had a lot of complaints. So, you said one and two. I think if Netanyahu is here, he might say, ‘I‘ve gotten 50.’ But — “
EMANUEL: “But even the Israeli security apparatus, there was a big portion of it that was for that agreement with the caveats that one and two were the big deficits.”
COLLINS: “So from your view, do you think the United States should strike Fordow? What — I mean, what is — if you were in that Situation Room advising the president, what would you advise him?”
EMANUEL: “I would say — look, I mean, I‘ll give you a practice we had. You had to give your argument and then what was wrong with it. So, I would not break that ethos until Israel has shown all its capacity and run its course, and you‘ve run your diplomatic. You always they know you have the military option. It is already having an ability where they have said they want to get back to the table. I‘d leave that, but put a time frame on the negotiations as well. Now, I‘m haunted by two things — not haunted, but I have a flashing yellow light. In 1994. Same room, Situation Room. Bill Clinton was getting very — basically, his security team bombed North Korea. Carter, President Carter, having gone there, messed it up and messed up that opportunity. And now you have a nuclear North Korea. The second thing to evaluate here and what‘s — and I‘m saying, as you pause and make diplomacy work all the way to the end, and there will be a time frame on that diplomacy, they‘ve already missed one clock and now I realize it‘s a cost, but the second thing is, Russia has been kicked out of Syria. The rest of the world now sees that when the chips are down, Russia, China and North Korea are nowhere to be found near Iran. You‘re on your own. And there is a play here that this axis of resistance has been shown to be literally very thin gruel.”