N/S Korea: Harrison’s Giveaway Idea Slapped Down

WSJ ^ | 12/14/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

* December 14, 2010, 6:00 PM KST

Harrison’s Giveaway Idea Slapped Down

The way out of the latest fracas with North Korea is to give Pyongyang what it wants, Selig Harrison, a former journalist who has visited Pyongyang several times, wrote on the op-ed page of The New York Times Monday.

It is one of the most extreme views expressed anywhere since North Korea’s attack of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23. And the takedown in South Korea and on Korea-related blogs has been swift.

One of South Korea’s most powerful newspaper columnists, Kim Dae-joong of Chosun Ilbo, the country’s biggest newspaper, sharply criticized Mr. Harrison on Tuesday.

[Ev Reeman]

The world must atart treating countries like North Korea and Iran as the plagues of civilization that they truly are.

It’s time to get more than tough with these rogue regimes.

You do whatever you nust to ensure that whether it be heavy and effective sanctions including economic and financial, blockades of seaports with the force of military action to back it up and cutting them off and isolating them as much as possible from the rest of the world community.

[mad puppy]

What is the German word for spinless moron?

“Selig”

[piytar]

Yes, because appeasement of dictatorial thugs ALWAYS works and NEVER leads to much worse problems later. /SARC /SPIT

Seriously, liberalism REALLY IS A MENTAL ILLNESS. There is NO other explanation for such utterly INSANE thought processes as exhibited by this “journolist.”

Just wow...

[mojito]

I’ve despised Harrison for years. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a paid North Korean agent. He certainly behaves like one.

[alarm rider]

In the late 1930’s, France and England gave the Third Reich what they wanted (even though it violated the treaty ending WWI). Namely, the Sudentenland, The Saar, Austria and Czechoslovakia. They did it to “prevent war” although war could have been prevented if France and England had confronted the Germans when they first violated the treaty. History tells us that the Germans were not strong enough to resist the French army at the time.

Hitler and the Boys would have caved in and the government they instituted would have fallen.

Because the French and the English got caught up in “give them what they want, and all will be fine” we got WWII.

If we do not learn from history, there is little hope that history will not repeat itself.

[dfwgator]

Hitler was pissed that Chamberlain denied him his war in Czechoslovakia, he was anxious to see his Wehrmacht in action. He was going to make sure the same wouldn’t happen again in regards to Poland.