10.17.09
Posted in China, North Korea, Nuclear proliferation at 9:02 pm by Administrator
Greta Van Susteren blogs about how she sees the current juncture of the North Korean situation, having just spent several days in Pyongyang and, I think, some other areas of that country.
The real bottom line comes in her last paragraph. The thrust of her post is that China needs to do more to goad NK to knock off its nuclear beligerence and to open up a bit, particularly economically. However, about the time we broach that conversational vector, China understandably says, “Um, yes, perhaps we can discuss that, but right now there is the matter of your debt, which we’re holding.”
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09.12.09
Posted in North Korea, World War III at 9:58 pm by Administrator
Of course, the other enemy that TCM is making good on his campaign pledge to sing kumbaya with is North Korea, which has responded to this gesture with an announcement of yet another nuclear bomb test.
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08.24.09
Posted in Ideology, North Korea, Pakistan at 4:52 pm by Administrator
TCM wants to turn 9/11 into a day of Aquarian hoo-ha.
UPDATE: This Lennox Yearwood, who organized the conference call to discuss it (other participants including Code Pink and ACORN), is a real humdinger.
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08.16.09
Posted in Ideology, North Korea at 4:16 pm by Administrator
Now that Afghanistan is TCM’s war – recall that he said that it should have been our focus, with no Iraq “distraction,” all along – and it is getting quite nasty, will he clearly define victory and do whatever it takes to achieve it?
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08.12.09
Posted in North Korea, Pakistan at 5:14 pm by Administrator
David Solway has a carefully reasoned and exquisitely written piece today at Pajamas Media. In fact, the only tinkering I might have done with it is extend its title, “The Absurdity of the West,” to include the phrase “in its Final Throes,” so as not to run the risk of giving readers the impression it was going to be about some fundamental absurdity of our civilizational heritage.
What it is actually about is the possibly fatal infection of Western civilization with this heretical view that the human being can be made unremittingly “nice.” As Solway points out in his last few paragraphs, we are now beyond having a margin for error that would cushion us from the consequences of such a basic misconception of our nature. Those who are not operating under such an illusion are in a position to sashay right in reality’s wide-open sliding-glass door. And see their will imposed.
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07.08.09
Posted in Contact, North Korea at 12:33 pm by Administrator
. . . take a moment to get your brain around the cyberattacks on South Korean and US government websites, including the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Transportation.
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06.24.09
Posted in Contact, Ideology, North Korea at 2:09 pm by Administrator
North Korea threatens to wipe the United States off the globe if we – well, what? Enforce the sanctions that the Six-Way Talk parties got the UN Security Council to enact?
There are three current aspects to the North Korean situation: the Myanmar-bound Kang Nam, which we have good reason to believe is carrying a cargo of weaponry, which has just passed Shanghai, and is being shadowed, but not stopped and boarded, by the USS John McCain, the two journalists, whose fate is now directly in the hands of heir-apparent Kim Jong Un, and the upcoming Taepodong-2 test, aimed in the direction of Hawaii.
The regimes in Iran and North Korea are watching each other to see how best to taunt TCM. Is there any real question as to why the level of testing and taunting of the US president has gone up dramatically this year?
The effete and mush-headed gushers, the climate-change Kool-Aid drinkers, the Fairness Storm Troopers and the remnants of the hippies may have thought, and may still think, that TCM is some kind of “light worker,” a being so oozing with enlightenment and purity that a few utterances from his radiant mug will make turn the world into Big Rock Candy Mountain. The world’s thugs have no such illusions. They smell weakness and know that this is the moment to go for it.
If we squeak through this summer without experiencing truly unthinkable developments, we’ll still have the issue of a seriously diminished United States to deal with. The one blessing will be that TCM will be rendered so ineffectual that we won’t even bother to look to him as the go-to-guy for handling truly important stuff. There will be a vacuum that, hopefully, some truly American figure can fill.
It will be late in the game for such a realization, but that’s better than not realizing it at all.
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06.15.09
Posted in Ideology, North Korea at 10:19 pm by Administrator
Events of the past few days have reminded me of a remark in a recent Mark Steyn column, in which he said that TCM’s reaction to the suddenly rapid boil of world-stage events is one of “I don’t need this in my life right now.”
North Korea has ratcheted its rhetoric to an outright threat of nuclear war. We all know that all it will take for that to become a probability is the stopping of one North Korean ship on the open seas per the latest sanctions package.
One pro-Mousavi demonstrator was shot to death and several others injured at a Teheran protest rally in the aftermath of Iran’s “election.”
The TCM administration offered a tepid thumbs-up to Netanyahu’s address even though it contained a number of provisos that must not have been easy for it to accept, or even act, for the time being, like it was accepting: no right of return, Jerusalem as the undivided capital, no stop to settlements, a demilitarized Palestinian state.
So, how did the Aquarian Totalitarian spend his afternoon? Cajoling the AMA about his Marxist health-care plan.
That’s much more within his comfort zone. While he does have a messianic sense of his role on the world stage, that aspect of his malignant narcissism is secondary to what he sees as his primary mission: the transformation of the United States of America into something else: a socialist – well, dictatorship or paradise, depending on your point of view.
The chilling thing, from the perspective of a citizen going about his daily business with no direct way to buffer himself against the vicissitudes of nuclear armageddon, is that he may not be able to stay on top of his ability to prioritize these things and respond with a profound-sounding “Um” as the clock ticks on toward high noon.
UPDATE: TCM finally dispensed a few words about Iran during a photo op with Silvio Berlusconi. Four minutes of confirmation of the above. Generalized references to “violence” (as if it were a fungus or something, as opposed to something a particular party introduced into a situation), and “the world” and “hard-headed diplomacy.” This guy is beyond dangerous.
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06.11.09
Posted in Culture, North Korea, Religion & Spirituality at 6:23 pm by Administrator
Last night I was really proud of Mrs. BN for something she observed and remarked on.
The Presbyterian Church in which I grew up – and, in fact, in which Mrs. BN and I got married – is just a few blocks from where I live. It’s been years since I darkened the door there. I tried it a few times a few years back, but quickly detected that same odor of leftism that made me leave the Unitarian church a few years earlier.
The congregation’s lurch to the left had begun when I was a kid. The minister at the time got it very involved in the National Coundil of Churches. Shortly after I was confirmed at age fourteen my parents quit going and quit supporting it financially. My dad took the pastor out to lunch, because he thought a respectful explanation of where he was coming from was in order. he told him the final straw was the sending of local money to Angela Davis’s defense fund during the time she was on trial for that courtroom shooting.
I knew that things had gone downhill over the years. We’ve al seen the stats on declining membership in mainline Protestant denominations. I wrote my master’s thesis on the subject. I’ve had ways of keeping up with developments at the local church. The local “Peace Fellowship” meets there once a month. A few months back, I became aware that it had declared itself a “progressive Christian community.”
Recently, the church has taken to prominently hanging a banner on its fence by the sidewalk that says, “Torture is a moral issue.” Every time I pass it, I give it the finger and mutter to myself, “Fine. Tell it to countries that torture.”
Back to Mrs. BN. Last night she asked if I’d seen it. She said she was well aware what it was implying. She said she found the moral preening involved in its display supremely off-putting. She wondered if anybody in the congregation had ever watched any jihadist beheading videos.
Many times a day, I look at her and realize I’ve got a real keeper, but there are exceptional moments when it becomes resoundingly clear.
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06.04.09
Posted in Ideology, North Korea at 3:20 pm by Administrator
Michelle Malkin on the lameness of TCM’s statement on the murder of the Army recruiter.
After pondering the crud about “senseless violence,” go back and think about what he said in the Cairo speech about how the West and the Muslim world can work together to combat “extremism” all over the world.
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05.25.09
Posted in Congress, Contact, Education, North Korea, Pakistan at 2:46 pm by Administrator
You’re not surprised, are you? North Korea has conducted another underground nuclear test, this one with a Hiroshima-sized impact.
This is what happens in a world so devoid of resolve that even the basic survival instinct is badly eroded.
Will TCM, the IAEA and the UN Security Council please shut up about sanctions and further isolation? Will the world’s pundits please shut up about “why they did it” and internal power struggles and pointy-headed little scenarios about what happens from here?
Our enemies smell blood, period. It’s to be expected when six-party talks are still treated as a viable option, when Leon Panetta of the CIA goes to Israel to sternly warn that nation not to take out Iran’s nuke program, when TCM accepts a book of West-hatred from Hugo Chavez, when the MSM can’t bring itself to put the obvious main point of a story about New York jihadist plotters of synagogue bombings – their religion – until paragraph number ten.
They smell blood in far-flung corners of the world, such as the international waters of the Gulf of Aden, into which Iranian warships have moved.
This has never been about posturing or swagger or copping an attitude or jockeying for political gain. When the great heralds of our age, such as Dick Cheney and John Bolton, speak plainly about danger and history and human nature and what we must not do and what we may have to do, they are not concerned with the “brand” of the party they happen to belong to. They are not concerned with cronyism-level interests. They certainly aren’t consumed with the utopian countercultural vision of the Freedom-Haters who currently hold our fate in their hands.
The longer you wait to face evil, the greater the chances are that you will have to face ever-more severe discomfort in the defense of what you value. How much pain are we interested in taking on?
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05.21.09
Posted in Ideology, National Security, North Korea at 5:47 pm by Administrator
The towering repository of vision, courage, character and love of freedom Dick Cheney spoke this morning at the American Enterprise Institute on national security. Here’s the full text of his speech.
The small-but-dangerous, narcissistic tyrant-in-the-making TCM, the Most Equal Comrade, also spoke in Washington on the same topic.
Pundit and Pundette say the former veep blew TCM’s doors off.
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05.14.09
Posted in Barack Obama, North Korea at 7:35 pm by Administrator
San Fran Nan’s sticking to her “I’ve-never-had-anything-to-do-with-that-icky-waterboarding-stuff” narrative even if it means desperately sputtering at a press conference.
Pass the popcorn. This is going to get good.
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