Better late than never

Dick Cheney, December 2003:

I have been charged by the President with making sure that none of the tyrannies in the world are negotiated with. We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it.

A Bush administration "official," in a May 2006 story entitled U.S. Said to Weigh a New Approach on North Korea:

I think it is fair to say that many in the administration have come to the conclusion that dealing head-on with the nuclear problem is simply too difficult.

That's a must-read, by the way.