November 25, 2003
Unilateralist? There's a much-misused word...
Marmot, a blogger who lives and teaches in Korea, has a long and fact-filed dissection of Josh Marshall's latest steaming mound of lies and distortions. That guy is really despicable. Marmot's piece is worth a read. (Also good are the comments to this...)
No American President "is to blame" for this problem. North Korea is totally at fault. That regime is utterly evil and unscrupulous. But the Clinton/Carter policies have manifestly failed. And Kim Dae-jung's "Sunshine Policy" has failed.
Now President Bush is trying a tougher tack. We Americans should be supporting him at this difficult moment. Constructive criticism is fine, but what Marshall is doing is wrong. And unpatriotic. (There. I said it. Senator Daschle will criticize me—he says it's wrong to impugn someone's patriotism. I'm not sure why it should be....)
(via Henry Hanks)
Sorry, Ladies, but while you're being raped and assaulted WE are trying to get multi-lateral support for SOMEONE coming to your rescue, but so MANY of us believe YOU are WRONG to try to protect yourselves... from Kim Jong-il...
But UNILATERAL aid, or assistance, or intervention might be immoral, so we'll get right back to you... hold on... a few more years...
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I worked the KorComm intel problem for years as a near-native Korean speaker; followed the developments (in print) since then and have in the last 15 months nearly immersed myself in online reportage touching on or centered on this problem... Marmot has some VERY well-researched, solid findings, and his fears and misgivings are all spot on!
I sincerely urge intelligent Americans to push for very strong action NOW, before 'Well, we sure have reason NOW!' comes to visit from North Korea's paranoid, xenophobic, Stalinist, Communist tyrant-elite!
Posted by: SharpShooter at November 29, 2003 09:21 PM
