Useful Idiots

by Dram_man on November 28, 2008

Again, I know this is not my beat. This asinine idea though inspires me. Per the Korea Times:

A policy group is advising U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to make permanent the current six-nation talks that are focused on North Korean denuclearization. According to the Brookings Institution, a progressive think tank in Washington, these talks should become a permanent regional framework.

“A permanent regional framework”? Really? I guess they came to that conclusion based on how amiable North Korean negotiators are. How willing the North is willing to reach a compromise in open ended discussions. Now NK abides by its previous commitments in such a reasonable and reliable way it makes deadlines and timetables superfluous.

Forget the preliminaries, lets put these “special” thinkers on the short bus for the Nobel Peace Prize now.

{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Linkd November 28, 2008 at 10:01 am: Here’s the report. It lacks any such recommendation.

Please note that the “permanent regional framework” that you put in quotes are the words of the Korean reporter. Maybe he was referring to this 2004 article, written by a fellow at Brookings.
2 Linkd November 28, 2008 at 10:02 am: Looks like I messed up a tag. this 2004 article
3 Linkd November 28, 2008 at 10:21 am: Ugh, sorry. Here’s the damning evidence.

Thus, the future security architecture of Northeast Asia will have at its core the Korean Peninsula legally at peace after six decades, that peace supported by a set of cooperative understandings mainly between South and North Korea comprising a “peace regime,” all embedded in a multilateral mechanism for promoting peace and security in Northeast Asia. A mechanism for peace and security could evolve from the Six-Party Talks…
4 anunsaram November 28, 2008 at 10:26 am: You idiot. Can’t you get anything right ?
5 Linkd November 28, 2008 at 10:29 am: Try this equation:

your lips + my ass = successful internet dating
6 anunsaram November 28, 2008 at 10:46 am: Hey, you took 4 out of the last 5 posts,……. I can’t even get a word in edgewise.

P.S. You should really do your homework before you post…… you IDIOT !

P.S. P.S. …….Happy Thanksgiving ( you turkey ! )
7 Linkd November 28, 2008 at 10:52 am: If I have in any way taken up bandwidth to ensure that your words are crowded out, blight, then it has been the better part of an hour well-spent. Thank you for your holiday wishes. Now please go drip your purulence elsewhere.
8 Dram_man November 28, 2008 at 11:10 am: Linkd> Stop it. Your makin’ me misty eyed.
9 dda November 28, 2008 at 7:08 pm: First ad below the “Useful Idiots” title:

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Ah well…
10 madar December 1, 2008 at 12:52 pm: I think by permanent they just mean the amount of time it will take to conclude a round of successful negotiation’s with North Korea on any one topic.