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Over the weekend, I noted with dismay Secretary Rice's apparently positive interpretation of North Korea's nuclear test. At the time, I suspected it was simply a matter of her trying to spin bad news in to good. Sure, I considered the idea that she might actually mean what she was saying, but that just seemed to far fetched. Until now:

Glenn Kessler reports from Moscow as he accompanies Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:

Before North Korea announced it had detonated a nuclear device, some senior officials even said they were quietly rooting for a test, believing that would finally clarify the debate within the administration.

Until now, no U.S. official in any administration has ever advocated the testing of nuclear weapons by another country, even by allies such as the United Kingdom and France.

One of these officials may have been Rice herself, Kessler hints. Rice, he reports, “has come close to saying the test was a net plus for the United States.” Rice has been trying to counter the prevailing view that the test was a failure of the Bush administration’s policy.

The current president, the man for whom Sec. Rice works, defined North Korea as an integral part of an "Axis of Evil." And yet somehow I'm supposed to believe that their conducting a nuclear test is a success and not a failure? Are you kidding me?

This administration was "rooting" for a North Korean nuclear test. If that's a success, what precisely would a failure be?