Red Lines
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North Korea launches some scuds and a dud and the president wants some Red Lines. Here it is plain and simple. If China doesn’t do some serious arm twisting on Kim Jong Il, and we’re talking both arms, conventional and nuclear, we, in the US, will stop shopping at Macy’s and Walmart.
I don’t know about you, but I can do without underwear for at least six days maybe seven. After that I would have to reconsider. United States Foreign Policy seems to be premised on Diplomacy in their approach with the DPRK. Well, that’s nice, since Iraq and Afghanistan have both proven that the world’s last surviving superpower is pretty much impotent when it comes to assymetrical warfare. We don’t have the stomach for KILLING INNOCENT CIVILIANS not to mention putting a lot of our young women and men, our paid shooters, into coffins for the trip back home, which that fellow, the former CIA guy Mike Anonymous tells us is absolutely necessary if we want to end a war of insurgency. It takes a lot of killing and a lot of death to end these kinds of wars, and even helicopter rescues from western hotels in foreign capitals, which we seem to have forgotten. We thought shock and awe would end it right there,. The Iraqi People would rush into the streets to hug our humvees. We now know that fighting from the green zone is the wrong approach, it has to be much more violent a lot uglier.
There seems to be one red line after another here in the US when it comes to the DPRK, the first Bush tried it, the second Bush tried it and Clinton did it between the two Bushes. Red Line seems to be wrong color.
The Chinese Capitalist Republic discovered that having one third of the world’s people, living in a Socialist Paradise didn’t work very well, and that greed is good. They became our factory and we became their market. We could easily convince the Chinese that they hold the key here, either bring Kim around to reality or we’re giving up underwear!
How long can China crank out cheap goods if Walmart is out of business? One week? Two?
In the meantime, we seem to be blending the RED STAR and the dollar sign. I see it everywhere, a raised five pointed star attached on the side of the barn, as a fleeting image on news programs, and of course on the flag of the DPRK.
We may be the world’s last superpower, but we’re not standing. We’re hunched over, carrying sacks of green to the fast boat to China. The Chinese economy is booming and using their new found capitalist wealth to feed the North Koreans. It is not just trains of food their sending it’s the whole train. It seems that Kim has a way of making his own rules, keeping the train that delivers the aid. A one way trip into the never never land above the DMZ a metaphor for eternal childhood, immortality and escapism.
The Chinese don’t seem to mind, they have so much of our money they can afford it!
In the MEAN time, we’re not just impotent, we’re stupid. We think that making the RED into GREEN will make China a Democracy! We think that by keeping thirty thousand troops in South Korea we will keep them out of harm’s way, and that using a bunker buster just a few kilometers from the Chinese border will defuse the threat.
Welcome to the Bush League of Nations, where the Black Queen is talking backwards and the hookah smokin’ Rumwart just ate some kinda mushroom and I seriously hope it doesn’t turn into a cloud over the horizon.
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Bob