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Thread ID: 15653 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-11-15
2004-11-15 12:33 | User Profile
by Todd Brendan Fahey November 15, 2004
Rocker Joe Walsh said it best: "You can't argue with a sick mind." The Eagles' guitarist and James Gang founder is one to know; Walsh's battles with alcoholism and drug addiction are legendary--of the "no way he'll live to be 30"-stripe.
No amount of interference or pleading or negotiations from fellow Eagles' band members, nor guards assigned to shake him down for the drugs he would, doubtless, be possessing at any minute of the day, could straighten Walsh out. The guy was doomed.
But he's still here. Maybe not "as good as ever," but good enough to be playing again with the Eagles and giving very cogent interviews. It took an internal uprising for to save Joe Walsh. He had to save himself.
The same measures must occur within North Korea, for to rescue itself from the evil that is the ultra-Stalinist domination of Kim Jong-Il and his late father, Kim Il-sung.
But here's the rub: the Eagles could tolerate Joe Walsh's antics no more, and basically disowned him until or if ever he'd shape up. The World Community, including South Korea, must, as well, disown the "Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea"--in letter and spirit, until its heirarchy crumbles for lack of basic resources.
And as we know that North Korea is receiving great fiscal assistance from China, as well as from dictator-run nations, there must be placed profound economic sanctions upon any nation trading or abetting North Korea.
South Korea's Leftist President Roh Moo-hyun implored members of the World Affairs Council, in Los Angeles yesterday, to "engage in [yet more] diplomacy with North Korea" and to "reward them" as North Korea has "attempted to create a market economy."
What has this guy been smoking?
North Korean economic data is as nonexistent as are the whereabouts of its heavy arsenals. The country allows no freedom of the press, forbids all international inspection teams, systematically starves or murders outright "political dissidents," abducts South Korean and Japanese citizens and retrains them as spies, all-the-while threatening its southern neighbor--its "brother"--with a "sea of fire," were the U.S. to preeminently strike or impose a sum-total naval embargo against shipments into the regime.
And Mr. Roh wants to be "friends" with this kind of monster?
Roh, as well, said with profound stupidity, that South Korea had "dug itself out of the ashes" of the 1950-1953 war and would not allow such a thing to be experienced again.
Earth to President Roh: Who do you think nearly decimated your nation during those four years? It wasn't the United States! We saved your ass, jack. Twice. (Japan had colonized South Korea from 1910-1945, and the U.S. freed the Republic of Korea from Japanese onslaught.)
And you repay the kindness of the United States with a slap to our face?
The South Korean citizenry (and Parliament) should issue another impeachment drive of this fool. He is clearly a Pyongyang stooge--a conscious, dedicated agent of the evil that is North Korea--and no friend of the United States of America.
2004-11-15 19:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]by Todd Brendan Fahey November 15, 2004 ...[COLOR=Red]And you repay the kindness of the United States with a slap to our face?
The South Korean citizenry (and Parliament) should issue another impeachment drive of this fool. He is clearly a Pyongyang stooge--a conscious, dedicated agent of the evil that is North Korea--and no friend of the United States of America[/COLOR].[/QUOTE]While in Japan more than 30 years ago I found Koreans of all political stripes ready to blame the United States for all their problems. At first I was dumbfounded and insulted. Then it came to me that like children they were only too ready to blame others for their behavior while continually professing innocence and benevolent intent.