This is the caliber of creature - human being is too good a word - with which our State department thinks it’s cool to negotiate

If the operator tells me you’re calling from Pyongyang, for your sake, I’m not gonna accept the charges.

And here’s how the masses that Abbas ostensibly represents feel about the renewed commitment to whatever that he made at Annapolis today.

4 Responses to “This is the caliber of creature - human being is too good a word - with which our State department thinks it’s cool to negotiate”

  1. Mr. Dings Says:

    Them sick yellow bastards. Why’d Ike pull-out back in da day? It was going the way Nam went. Wars never really solve much, just a lot of gore and senseless damage to what
    we lovingly wrought. Perhaps that is why we try to talk. It’s so easy to say we’re gonna kick some butt, and then to kick some, watch ‘em fall.

  2. Bentnotesmanhisself Says:

    I don’t think yellowness is so much the issue. It’s their Stalinism that, shall we say, causes difficulties.

  3. Mr. Dings Says:

    I know, but that is battle lingo light, dontcha know. You still have not answered why Ike pulled out back in the day. Would we not be experiencing these difficulties now? I am not at all condoning the actions of all the citizenry who showed up to essentially see a man thrown to the lions. You call my ilk freedom haters, but we see, we see the same things you do and are outraged. But, it is, in the final analysis, not our country. Are we supposed to kick some heinie over there now, or what, is all I’m asking. And how do we do dat? Why we fly our planes over and drop some of our latest incendiary material, no? Gee, it’s so complex this ass kicking thing.

  4. Bentnotesmanhisself Says:

    Re: the citizenry that showed up to watch: I think they were, shall we say, highly encouraged to turn out.
    Re: Ike pulling out. I think he looked at what prolonging / escalating things would entail and said, “Damn it, this is the best we can shoot for.” Every conflict everywhere since 1945 has had this potential looming as a backdrop and it makes for some fateful decisions that leave certain issues unresolved. That said, where we could have maybe put Korean history on a different course and avoided our current delicate set of circumstances was the late 70s / early 80s, when NK first thumbed its nose at the Non-Proliferation Treaty. We should have said, “Sorry, comrades, it ain’t gonna fly.”
    We don’t have to kick heinie right this second, but I sure wish we were more forcefully conveying that we consider that to be among our options.

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