Why Bush is scarier than Kim Jong-il

Asia Times ^ | 2/8/02 | Aidan Foster-Carter

[Cicero]

Who is Aidan Foster-Carter, and why is he saying these silly things?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Gag alert recommended for this one. So Bill Clinton would have contained the Korean threat with a TREATY? And Bush has blown this happy and secure state of affairs with his intemperate rhetoric? Dream on!

[dalebert]

Iran and Iraque just signed trade agreement. Sounds like axis to me.

[safeasthebanks]

This is exactly the same kind of tripe that was written after Reagan's "evil empire" speech. I'm sure its just as accurate as that tripe was, too.

[Russ]

Must be a relative of Jimmy Carter...

[Hugin]

But like many, I'm puzzled that Iran was named - after its reformers' efforts since September 11 to reach out to the US. Such naming and shaming can hardly help the moderates in Tehran in their ongoing power struggle with the reactionary and viscerally anti-American mullahs.

This same mentality said Reagan was an idiot for calling the Soviets the Evil Empire. The Soviet media played Reagan's speech relentlessy thinking it would stir up anti-American ferver and show Reagan as a dangerous cowboy. But disidents said that his comments encouraged them by showing they were not alone. Besides they already knew they were living in an Evil Empire.

Bush was absolutely clear that he was aiming his attack at a small group of unelected leaders who are thwarting their people's desire for freedom. Like in Russia in the 1980s there is a whole generation that has grown up hating their ruling elite for stealing their future, and they know what Bush says is true.

[The KG9 Kid]

Is this guy even in Korea?

After 9-11, all the Korean programmers at work were saying: 'The US ought to use nukes. Do you think President Bush will use nukes? I sure hope they use nukes.'

[dighton]

Condescending academic tripe of the day.

[mrfixit514]

Bush is only scary to those nations that have sponsored terrorism. They should be afraid of him. He has the might and will of the American People behind him. That should terrify some nations.

[arkfreepdom]

Of course he's scarier....that's the point. He's the POTUS. It's high time people were scared of us. Being nice has only gotten us planes flown into buildings. We are the most benevolent world power in history....but that has to have limits. F%@# with us and we'll blow up your damn country .

[Benrand]

Has anyone from the Bush Adm. flown 747s into any buildings in ANY of these countries? Or military targets filled with civilians?

A-HOLES!!!!!!!!!

[SoDak]

Figures, I wouldn't expect coherent political analysis from a sociologist.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Apparently this jerk is another simpering British or Aussie liberal punk with his panties in a bunch. We should have replaced the North Korean regime a long time ago- 1954 would have been a good year- but it's never too late to do the right thing.

The claim that Clinton left the U.S. with a "big foreign policy win" on North Korean missile sales is too preposterous to argue over. What a load of pigcrap!

[Dawgsquat]

His 2.12 trillion dollar budget scares me more than this does.

[JimSEA]

Bush is also scary to those European and American "intellectuals" who hope for the destruction of USA. Clinton, given a couple of more years might just have done the job.

[Buckeroo]

BUMP!

[Jim Scott]

F%@# with us and we'll blow up your damn country.

More accurately; 'F*** with us and we'll humiliate you, destroy your dictatorship, neutralize your military and run your ragged arse out of the country and make you a pariah among the nations.

I believe that fear can be an effective path for peace when dealing with dictators and I'm all for generating a lot more of it, especially from hard-line communists.

[johnny7]

Aussie pigcrap is bad... Brit pigcrap smells worse.

North Korea is a time bomb waiting to go off.

We will have to defend South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Hope your ready pop, big time $hit-storm coming soon.

[Cicero]

Clinton bought off the North Koreans by giving them a nuclear plant so they could make MORE bombs. Somehow I don't think that was very helpful to U.S. security, or for that matter for Asian security.