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Axis of Evil
North Korea cancels visit
2002-02-10
  • North Korea has called off a visit by a group of former U.S. ambassadors. The delegates, who included four former ambassadors to South Korea, had planned to meet senior North Korean officials later this month. They attributed the cancellation to President Bush's criticism of North Korea in his State of the Union speech. Robert A. Scalapino, professor emeritus at the University of California, agreed. "The use of incendiary language is not fruitful," he said. Scalapino helped organize the trip and planned to go himself.
    Well, what the hell is fruitful, cheddarhead? We tried being nice. We sent them groceries when their people were eating grass and stones and they fed the army. We tried negotiating. We tried giving them money. Now maybe we'll try punching them in the nose.
    Interesting cited article: the quoted academics, especially Scalapino, wail and moan most fervently, but the listed former ambassadors don't give a single quote and hold their diplmatic tongues. So let's look into these academics' curricula vitae and mirabile dictu! these fellows have been jet setting about the globe on such junkets for the past decade and earning a pretty good living off of basically stirring the bath water in between pompous speeches cut from the same cloth as Scalapino's quote. I'd give Scalapino and his academic brethren as much credence as I'd give a Teamster on a picket line complaining about how the management is oppressing the aspirations of the working man. Or as they say on the farm, when feeding the pigs, don't stand between the hogs and the slop or you might get run over.
    Posted by Tom Roberts 2/10/2002 4:44:00 PM
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