Posted on 12/23/2011 5:09:41 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
....For the Obama administration, it is a time for restraint that is respectful of our own limited knowledge, not only of the workings of the regime Kim Jong Il left behind but of the people of North Korea so evidently in the grip of that regime. President Barack Obama's first response was to quietly contact President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea to reassure him of the U.S. commitment to its longtime ally.
By contrast, two of the Republican presidential hopefuls for 2012, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, jumped in with gratuitous comments. Mr. Romney suggested that the death of the North Korean leader represents an opportunity to work with allies "to turn North Korea off the treacherous course it is on and ensure security in the region." Mr. Perry, with customary obtuseness, was quoted as saying his passing provided the United States with a chance to "reunify the peninsula."
Talk of reunification of the two Koreas is fanciful, reinforcing the spreading notion that Texan provincial Mr. Perry is totally out of his league. The existence of a thriving South Korea, with its skyscraper-modern capital of Seoul, bordering on one of the world's most impoverished, backward and repressive states, mocks the notion.
The new development in North Korea underscores the work still ahead for American intelligence and diplomacy in cracking the enigma of this remaining Communist outpost, and the need for much greater comprehension of the cultural underpinnings of foreign countries with which we deal.
...The obvious imperative of taking a wait-and-see posture toward the news from North Korea dovetails with Mr. Obama's cautious personality and leadership style. Any further kibitzing on the matter by the Republicans competing for his job will be committed at their own political peril....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Provincial: having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; a person lacking urban polish or refinement -- bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, hick, rube, rustic, yokel.... [in effect -- fly-over Americans]
Antonyms: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate
“By contrast, two of the Republican presidential hopefuls for 2012, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, jumped in with gratuitous comments. Mr. Romney suggested that the death of the North Korean leader represents an opportunity to work with allies “to turn North Korea off the treacherous course it is on and ensure security in the region.” Mr. Perry, with customary obtuseness, was quoted as saying his passing provided the United States with a chance to “reunify the peninsula.” “
Neither Mr. Romney nor Mr. Perry have the authority to call the South Korean leader and “reassure” them of our committment.
Unlike Nancy Pelosi who undermined the Bush administration and went to Syria with her knee pads in tow.
Dec 19, 2011: Gov. Rick Perry on the Death of Kim Jong Il
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement regarding the death of Kim Jong Il:
“The death of vicious dictator Kim Jong Il provides some cause for hope but does not automatically end the reign of inhumane tyranny he and his father constructed. Twenty-three million people still live under North Korea’s isolationist, inhumane and tyrannical policies. North Korea remains a nuclear power, and there is a great threat that those weapons might fall into the wrong hands if civil war breaks out.
“At the same time, Kim Jong Il’s death is an opportunity to reunify the peninsula if the situation is handled effectively. Kim Jong Un is an unknown quantity, and may not be able to maintain power. The United States must now strongly reaffirm our commitment to our Asian allies, particularly South Korea, and maintain a strong military, diplomatic, and economic presence in the Pacific region during this period. We should also engage with China, and encourage Beijing to work towards a peaceful transition from a grim dictatorship to a free Korea.”
“Antonyms: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate”
Hmmm...everything the MSM and Libs in general, think they are. The rest of us are just a bunch of dolts and Neanderthals.
“Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished “every success” to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country’s state-run news agency.
A dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr. Carter sent the message to Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il’s son and heir apparent.
“In the message Jimmy Carter extended condolences to Kim Jong Un and the Korean people over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il. He wished Kim Jong Un every success as he assumes his new responsibility of leadership, looking forward to another visit to [North Korea] in the future,” the KCNA dispatch read.”....
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Bio: http://www.tmsfeatures.com/bio/jules-witcover/25589519.html
“Jules Witcover has reported and analyzed the news from Washington and around the country for more than half a century.”
“He has covered every presidential campaign and national political convention since the early 1960s, has written a dozen books and co-authored five others on politics and history, including “No Way to Pick a President” and “Party of the People: A History of the Democrats.” His latest book is “Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.” “
Any Questions of where he is from? And his reaction to Rick, who said he would take a wrecking ball to DC? hee hee hee
Relativism is cosmopolitan. So is kowtowing to the absolute evil of the Jonestown-writ-large regime of North Korea.
That's what they believe and why they start dropping their Gs and saying things like, "Can I get me a huttin' license here?" when they venture out to campaign -- so we can understand them. LOL
=^D
Neither side of the aisle want to pack up and go home 6 months out of the year......and get a job and live under the laws [and health care bill] they’ve saddled us with.
Get this, he "thinks" the problem with the Norks is "we simply do not understand them". (hee hee hee) What a Dork.
Of course the Baltimore Sun would never critique its bloviating paramour, Jimmah. Like the NYT the SUN has been enslaved by the Pink and Pretty. I convulsed, wretching the last time I touched this fetid crab waste wrapper.
You got it. We need to understand their culture, their “love” of oppressive communism.
6 months of the year?
Why not 9 or 10 months of the year. They can telecommute from their home district and live under the thumb of the electorate.
It is TIME to DownSize DC! Eliminate entire departments. The only way to remove the entrenched subversives there. Move the functions worth keeping, back to the States. A place where the DC creatures would be revolted to inhabit. Out among the peons.
That post is focused like an unchoked 6" barrel shotgun using birdshot. All I can gather from it is you dislike Romney and Perry - enough to misquote Perry's statement, and you threw in Pelosi to make the rest seem credible.
I often think of this story (one of MANY) where elite youth are programmed [like the singing about Obama, "Yes he can, can, can..."].
Backward, like East Germany ?
Jules the poodle boy has all the sophistication of a bone-nose cannibal inviting the local missionary over for lunch.
These 50 IQ savages in the American neo-Nazi media worship the most despicable mass murders and dictators the world has ever seen.
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