After reading the news today of N. Korea’s missile demonstration / test, I believe I’ve got a better understanding of their apparent insolence through the “talks” with the US… some quotes follow:
From the Guardian Unlimited (UK): …the official North Korean news agency quoted the North Korean foreign ministry as calling Mr Bush a “hooligan, bereft of any personality as a human being, to say nothing of stature as president of a country. He is a half-baked man in terms of morality, and a philistine whom we can never deal with.”
From the Telegraph (UK): Shortly before the suspected missile test, North Korea said Mr Bush was a “philistine whom we can never deal with. . . a hooligan and a world dictator whose hands are stained with the blood shed by innocent civilians”.
After looking up the definition of philistine I found myself in total agreement with the N. Korean ministry. I also realized that, with a president as “philistine” as Bush, no one is going to take the US seriously when it comes to foreign affairs…
So we’ve got a money-grubbing, twice (or thrice?) bankrupted, coked-up frat boy in charge, and 50-some-million citizens who chant “ra, ra, ra” for this guy, what else do you think of this country’s representation but the worst joke you’ve ever heard? Who could take us seriously?
Granted, we can bomb the hell out of anyone we don’t like, but we’re not the only people with “the bomb” and we’ve never been. Now I’m not quite ready to pack my bags and leave but it’s starting to sound like a better idea every day… how long until “the bomb” gets dropped on us? I’d love to see a poll on which cities get hit first…
