Steve H. connects to an article in a South Korean paper that purports to show that the majority of people in that nation are French. In other words, they believe that we want to conquer Iraq and steal all its oil, yadda yadda.
The position the United States seems to be in these days with many of its supposed allies can be described using this analogy: we are like the guy in a marriage characterized by bickering, backbiting, and ceaseless accusations and contradictory demands that he is unable to fulfill. Nothing he can say will please his bitter shrew of a spouse, whom he married out of obligation rather than love. She is constantly threatening him with divorce, but the minute he even hints at wanting to leave on his own terms rather than be ignomiously thrown out and then soaked for alimony for all he is worth, she pulls out the tears and the claims of being too weak to go it on her own, accuses him of abandonment, and so on.
The Iraq situation: she's found out about the girl he's been trying to help, who's been trapped in a relationship with a brutal thug. (Guess who.) The husband is trying to help this girl for his part in getting her into trouble -- let's say he didn't help her years ago when he could have -- but he doesn't plan on leaving his wife for her. But you know how insecure shrewish wives are.
Our relationship with Britain is also part of this scenario. See, the guy also has a friend, an old ex-girl friend. They had a real serious blow out in the past, which means they will never get married, but that is all behind them now and they have stuck to each other through thick and thin where it counts. Naturally, the wife is jealous of that relationship too.
What we really need, in other words, is not a World Court, but a World Divorce Court. It's time this marriage was ended. Wifey has to learn to stand on her own two feet -- and learn that doing so does not mean obsessing over every last little thing that her ex-husband does after that. She has more than enough wealth socked away in little accounts she has kept secret from us, so she doesn't need any alimony. She doesn't need us to hold her hand. (Isn't that what she is always saying?) I say start the divorce proceedings now. After all this war-against terror stuff is done with the next words I want to hear are "All rise -- World Divorce Court with Judge Rummy is now in session!"
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 23, 2003 12:57 AMThere are times when I really do want to just walk out on South Korea.
Of course, can you imagine how China would start behaving?
Gack. Curse Woodrow Wilson...
Posted by: Dean Esmay at March 23, 2003 at 02:57 AMI think you can see the actual problem here protesting on our streets right now.
Our people are too cynical to believe our own shallow / sometimes-manipulative media and government but they're absolute idiot suckers for propaganda that comes from other countries. It's never occured to them that, for instance, the arab states are flooding the world with propagada.
Well south korea is flooded with propaganda from the north - and they have a generation of idiots who are buying into the crap.
The French (quel idiots) bought into soviet anti-american propaganda.
People are suckers!
Posted by: Joshua Scholar at March 23, 2003 at 10:23 PM