Comments on: A reminder: The Korean War never quite ended

By: Alinup

Alinup — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:16:59 +0000

North Korea is about protecting a small elite. What would you do if your life depended on it?

By: wrisky1

wrisky1 — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:01:16 +0000

The term “The loons in Pyongyang ” betrays the author’s ignorance on the topic. Reducing an extremely complex diplomatic problem to a misapplied analogy here and there is not a recipe for an informative, thought provoking editorial.

The sinking of a ship is traditionally considered an act of war.

These are people who know how to hold a grudge.

Some genuine pressure from Beijing would …

When it gets around to this:

“The regime in Pyongyang has always been rabid and murderous. Now it’s rabid, murderous and nuclear-armed.”

…all that’s is going on is tossing some red meat to the low info, fearful fifth of our society.

We are being told to be afraid. Not for any good reason and when that wears off come back and we will fear you up again.
This sort of broad brush, talking point rehashing of a semi-familiar bogeyman is a throwback to the neo-con halcyon days of ’00-’03. In other words, not much of a journalistic standard to aspire to.

By: Novelist3

Novelist3 — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:24:57 +0000

China is the big reason for a lot of things wrong with the world today. They’ve been protecting dictatorships and enforcing communism since the Red Revolution, anyone who speaks out against their government routinely vanishes, and they regularily do their best to hack into our government to get US secrets.

But let’s all just give them a free pass because they give us cheap electronics.