Posted by
rycK on Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:38:52 AM
The New York Times Sings Wonderful Songs about North Korea and Diplomacy.
The New York Times, always in the furrow created by Walter Duranty[1], the Patron Saint of the Old Gray Lady, now essays us on fairness and diplomacy, again, with North Korea.[2] [3] The editorial staff of the Times remains emotionally enchanted and politically mesmerized by Marxism and its intrinsic ‘fairness’ and ‘concern’ for the poor, notwithstanding the essential vector here: the excuse to plunder the assets of capitalism at all costs. That is their future; that is their present; that is their past. Today, in an odd twist, the NYT actually agrees with the Bush Administration on the failure of the Communists to give an open accounting of their nuclear program. David Gregory must have swooned. Bill Clinton solved the diplomacy problem [4] by shuffling about 5 billion dollars of our tax revenues to the dictator Kim with the Marxian assistance of Jimmy Carter.[5] [6] This sterling piece of diplomacy was based on an exchange of money for ‘promises.” We know how that worked out. Jimmy was ecstatic, Clinton was satisfied, the Communists were overjoyed as they could get paid for producing nuclear weapons and the US citizens got screwed, as usual, in dealings with the shrunken Marxist remains of the Bolshevik Era. This little theatrical production seems to have received unfavorable reviews by some, but not robustly by the Times. The Times will find a way to support our enemies in any way they can and this propaganda piece of today is just illusory fluff—there is more to come.
In today’s little propaganda piece [A Little Nuke Music[7]] that is based on holding the parties accountable for their (now) signed and published promises, we are astonished by the NYT’s admission that they suddenly [read temporarily] side with Bush on the question that their allies in the flesh would renege on a deal and demand payment anyway. That is a bit too cheesy for the editorial staff to spin directly into policy—they need to create some loopholes for their friends.
“That effort unfortunately has stalled, and the fault — at least this time — is undeniably Pyongyang’s. It would take a serious diplomatic push by the Bush administration and the leaders of China, Russia, Japan and South Korea to ensure that it does not fall apart.”[8] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
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“North Korea agreed last year to disable its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and produce a “complete and correct” accounting of all its nuclear activities, facilities and weapons-usable material by the end of last year. In exchange, it was to get 950,000 tons of heavy fuel oil and start down the road toward normalizing diplomatic and economic relations with the United States and others.”[9]
Is this like scouring Africa and most particularly Niger and not finding yellow cake? A negative can be proven if a sufficient number of leftists join the chorus.
“The Bush administration has a long history of using any excuse to scuttle any diplomatic deal, but in this case it is right. Pyongyang clearly agreed to full disclosure and the deadline. Since then serious questions have also arisen about Pyongyang’s nuclear cooperation with Syria. That must also be disclosed.”[10]
Can we suggest, at this point, that such a “complete and correct” accounting of North Korea’s nuke songs might have been incorporated by Jimmy Carter in his ‘diplomacy’ in the first place before we gave them loads of cash? No. The leftist notions of diplomacy are defined only in the strictest terms of appeasement. Just give the maggots some money and hope the threat will go away. Such measures have worked well in such cases as Mary Joe Kopechne as strict silence, as specified in a signed agreement, was maintained.
“The United States and its partners should continue to explore creative solutions to the impasse and stand ready to lift sanctions and quickly take North Korea off the terrorism list if it fulfills its obligations. China, North Korea’s chief benefactor (and frequent enabler), must press Pyongyang to keep its commitments.”[11]
I thought the NYT was for a one-on-one diplomatic effort at the beginning of the Bush Administration’s efforts to deal with these maggots? Not true? Now, they want China and Japan and South Korea, the capitalistic mirror image of the abortive North[12], to throw in a few things? I thought China was building a wall to keep the illegal North Korean aliens out of their country? Is this an ‘enabling’ process? It might well be as it prevents the horrors of the poor being documented as fleeing the splendors the Dearest Kim’s Paradise. That is leftist diplomacy in full bloom with song and scents.
Then, there is a fleeting mention of the possibility of Syria and North Korea working on a joint project to fit nuclear war heads to missiles so they can obliterate Israel. [13] That might be a diplomatic coup for the left as they are bosom buddies with the Islamo-Fascists. The scheme to give our enemies money to develop nuclear weapons and help out the Islamo-Fascists prepare new exotic missiles to burn down Israel ranks up at the very top of the scale of cooperating with our enemies as we saw in an earlier performance with such fellow-travelers such as Dean Acheson, Millard Tydings and the Little Truman and his lackeys. The Truman administrative decks were awash with FDR-inspired Commies and couldn’t seem to properly investigate them or at least kick them out of the White House or State Department. Notice that the Clinton/Carter antics can be correlated with the Dean Acheson Follies to show that appeasement and direct support of our enemies are a vital and ongoing project for the sordid left. Imagine the ingenuity of our supporting our enemies so they can destroy us! All this seems to show us a concerted FDR/HST/JEC/WJC string of diplomatic successes in aiding our enemies.
The gripper comes in the last element of this propaganda exercise when we read:
” The United States and its partners should continue to explore creative solutions to the impasse and stand ready to lift sanctions and quickly take North Korea off the terrorism list if it fulfills its obligations.”
Now, the dangling carrot is shown in the light. If NK comes up with some phony list then the NYT would push to forget and forgive and remove NK from its state-sponsored terrorist status. That would be a cheap parlor trick reminiscent of Harry Hopkins [14]giving Joe Stalin his pick of land in Eastern Europe he desired or finding ways to sandbag Chang to give Chairman Mao the prize of the People’s Republic.
Maybe the leftists have found a way to get Israel nuked with American support and tax dollars. That would be a coup that would best the Fall of Berlin or Pearl Harbor.
For a mere picosecond it looked like the New York Times had stumbled into some location resembling reality, but a close reading of this well-tuned propagandistic treatise shows that they have reserved several caveats to cover their adoration for Marxism and will remain the compliant stooges that their sordid histories clearly indicates they have been and they will continue to grovel in the political rubble of the vanquished Marxist dream in any event.
The Times is hinting that some random numbers and appropriate dates must be scrawled on an imported clean sheet of paper and then proffered before the world to satisfy due diligence and compliance with the agreement’s critical elements and show that North Korea has fully complied with the deal. Shovel some more money their way so that Times can celebrate in Greenwich Village with white wine and tofu.
rycK
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[1] [1] Red in honor of Stalin. Walter Duranty. “ He said that these people had to be "liquidated or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass". Duranty claimed that the Siberian labor camps were a means of giving individuals a chance to rejoin Soviet society but also said that for those who could not accept the system, "the final fate of such enemies is death.". Duranty, though describing the system as cruel, says he has "no brief for or against it, nor any purpose save to try to tell the truth". He ends the article with the claim that the brutal collectivization campaign which led to the famine was motivated by the "hope or promise of a subsequent raising up" of Asian-minded masses in the Soviet Union which only history could judge.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
[3]North Korea Nukes Clinton Legacy. Asian Arms Race Result of Appeasement Policy by Charles R. Smith Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003 .http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/7/164846.shtml.
[4] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/clintons_new_glow_job.html
[5] “Clinton's 1994 'Peace' Deal with N. Korea
By Ann Coulter.. “To go on TV and propose negotiating with North Korea like Clinton did without ever mentioning that North Korea cheated on that agreement before the ink was dry would be like denouncing American aggression against Japan in 1942 and neglecting to mention Pearl Harbor. Anyone who is either that stupid or that disingenuous should not be allowed on TV.
When pressed by CNN's Anderson Cooper about the failed deal, Richardson lied, claiming the 1994 deal prevented the North Koreans from building nukes "for eight years" -- i.e., right up until the day The New York Times reported the North Koreans had been developing nukes "for the past several years." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/clintons_new_glow_job.html
[6] http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/7/164846.shtml
[7] A Little Nuke Music Published: Editorial, New York Times, February 28, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/opinion/28thu1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
[12] The North Korean famine resulted in the deaths of between 300,000 and 800,000 North Koreans per year during the three year famine, peaking in 1997, with 2.0 million total being "the highest possible estimate." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea
[13]“In an interview to Newsweek, Imad Moustapha called the reports "absolutely, totally, fundamentallyridiculous and untrue." "There are no nuclear North Korean-Syrian facilities whatsoever in Syria," Moustapha said. “Syria: There are no N. Korea-Syria nuclear facilities whatsoever By Barak Ravid, Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and News Agencies. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/903398.html
[14] Communist stooge and espionage agent.