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October 10, 2006

A Good North Korea Policy Model

Foreign policy ideas that matter

 

 

Mark Levin’s opening segment yesterday hit the nail right on the head concerning what we should be kicking around instead of the dead horse of obviously socially very liberal former congressman Mark Foley.

 

In the first snippet below, Levin discusses exactly what we need to do about North Korea and Iran, as well as China and Russia. Taking up the Reagan mantel, Levin reminds us of what that leadership would look like in the world – particularly in such stormy times. Along with China and North Korea, Levin also notes that it's time with respect to Russia and Iran et al that if “If they arm our enemies, we’ll arm theirs”. If Russia chooses to act as if the first Cold War were still alive, so need we (10 mins.):

 

 

 

And what does the dem leadership say we should do about China’s little communist attack terrier? In this second snippet, Mark shows us what those dems would like to have us do: channel Jimmy Carter non compos corpus. In fact, the same Jimmy Carter who went to North Korea in the 90s to broker that brilliant disarmament success, also now is planning on trying the same with Tehran – presumably because Jimmy was also such a brilliant success with Iran once before. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union thanks to Reagan, libs still think appeasement is the answer. To wit, Levin plays a sound byte from future Frenchman and former plagiariser Democrat Senator Joe Biden’s mens rea: “Deal directly with, not negotiate, just lay down, have a straight out, flat out talk with North Korea…and find out if there is any possibility of them ceasing and desisting…”. In other words, this dem says we should “just lay down” and after the North Koreans and Chinese have their way with us, we’ll see if there’s “any possibility” they will consider going away. Levin goes on brilliantly from there (providing as well the timeline of Clinton and UN failures leading up to today) (6 mins.):

 

 

 

While the somewhat Nixonian Bush administration isn't exactly the perfect model of Reaganescence in its foreign policy, 60% is still better than 0%, and it should be remembered on Election Day. And while it’s not emphasized enough, if we don't like our Republican candidates, we have only ourselves to blame for not getting involved in the primary process which selects those candidates. Nevertheless, even though the Bush administration may not be perfect in foreign policy matters, outside of the Americas it's still morally right and much better than any repackaged form of peanut-farmer-inspired surrender the dem leadership may try to proffer.

 

There is also little doubt that the Bush administration has done much better than the easily-played Clinton administration when it comes to North Korea. While the left seems to think that Pyongyang went along by the rules during the 90s and only began working on nukes after Bush somehow managed to offend the ruffled pedophile with the bad wig Kim Jong Il, the same intellectually-challenged dems for whatever reason overlook the fact that it takes time to build a nuclear bomb. In other words, if the North Koreans are testing a bomb today, they were no doubt working on it all those years during the Clinton administration when they told Madeleine Not-So-Bright they would make nice in return for the US and Asian democracies paying tribute to the terrorist state. Surprise, surprise, communists once again lied like communists always do. And of course, since China was running its network of spies within various levels of US government with impunity during the Clinton years, no doubt Chinese intelligence was passed along to North Korea letting Pyongyang know there was nothing to worry about.

 

Mark Levin’s correct: we need to call China’s bluff and help Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan to go nuclear. Additionally, we should strengthen strategic ties in that region in a similar form to that of NATO, which was developed to be the strategic balance to Warsaw Pact communist expansionism during the first Cold War. You’ll see just who really controls North Korea when that process begins. And were North Korea unresponsive to China and run by a lone nut with a hostage crisis-making mentality and not a puppet government as the pro-China dem leadership seems to think, then our East Asian allies will be prepared for that, too. We must provide a way for those allies to defend themselves against either threat. As Levin rightly points out, both China and its Mini-Me North Korea need to be intelligently addressed, the growing shadow of their menace contravened in the region.

 

 

UPDATE: Jane at ALR: Jong Il and Maddie BFF

 

 

Posted by Martin at October 10, 2006 01:58 AM

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