Comments on: False parallels

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:47:18 +0000

I think this is related to “false parallels” – what does it mean when your political negotiations with an opponent result in an agreement – and then, once the other side has gained everything they can out of the agreement, given you nothing YET in return, they then walk away from the agreement? In effect, they have given you the finger, and never intended to ever abide by the agreement. What do you do, as a nation, then?

From Caroline Glick’s latest column, an object lesson from an Asian Hamas ally:

This week North Korea’s official news agency threatened to destroy South Korea in a “sea of fire,” and “reduce everything treacherous and anti-reunification to debris and build an independent, reunified country on it,” if any country dares to attack its nuclear installations.

North Korea made its threat two weeks after Kim Jung Il’s regime disengaged from its fraudulent disarmament talks with the Bush administration. Those talks – the brainchild of foreign policy “realists” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill – were based on the “realist” belief that the US can appease North Korea into giving up its nuclear arsenal. (That would be the same nuclear arsenal that the North Koreans built while engaged in fraudulent disarmament talks with the Clinton administration.)

After Pyongyang agreed in February 2007 to eventually come clean on its plutonium installations (but not its uranium enrichment programs), and to account for its nuclear arsenal (but not for its proliferation activities), Rice convinced President Bush to remove North Korea from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terror and to end its subjection to the US’s Trading with the Enemy Act this past October. And then, after securing those massive US concessions, on December 11 Pyongyang renounced its commitments, walked away from the table and now threatens to destroy South Korea if anyone takes any action against it.

Conservative bloggers seem to never nominate Caroline Glick for the non-Council weekly award. I don’t know why. She’s brilliant.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230111707087&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:32:54 +0000

To be able to distinguish between good and evil, you must first have a soul.

By: pst314

pst314 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:51:33 +0000

“her values system has been so perverted that she can no longer distinguish between good and evil”

A lot of people on the left are like that. They have abandoned universal moral principles for identity group politics: What benefits the favored groups is good, what harms the unfavored groups doesn’t matter. Many of them bear more than a passing resemblance to the fascists and fascist apologists of the 1930′s.

By: pst314

pst314 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:46:58 +0000

“They live in a culture that encourages the rape and murder of Jewish women.”

I once saw a Palestinian film that depicted the rape of an female Israeli soldier, in which the rape was portrayed as making a “real woman” out of her. There was absolutely no negative reaction from any urban American intellectuals in the audience. None. Liberalism has “defined deviancy down” to the point where they could not recognize Hitler himself if he shaved his mustache and spoke Arabic.