Although Hamid Karzai definitely has the upper hand in this interview, I was surprised to see our president show a little wit when talking to the notoriously partisan reporter Jennifer Loven. I mean, if I were talking to the president in an interview, I would at least try to approach things neutrally; you get more of a story that way. An attack will only warrant defensive measures.
The transcript is pretty interesting though. Is there a hope for the next two years? Maybe, but it's slim. We first have to get the hell out of Iraq and not start wars with anyone new. I really don't want to be nuked. Ever.
North Korea and communism
Hell yes, I'm a little edgy. Kim-Jong-Il is just a scary little man; combined with his Stalinist ideals, I'm like OH HELL, IF YOU INTRODUCE ANY FIVE-YEAR PLANS, I WILL SCREAM. 1) They didn't work at all; 2) Well...Communist Russia wasn't exactly in possession of a model economy to begin with. When you think about East Asia's history in the past fifty years or so, after World War II, almost all the communist nations have had somewhat slow economies; it's only after a return to western principles that the economy begin to boom again. This is probably partly due to our fear towards communism; our animosity with Cuba proves this. The sanctions go the same way. It's just another scramble for world power; democracy versus communism, and this time, I'm a bit worried that the aftermath will be a bloodbath. No good can come of forming alliances in this day and age, because someone's liable to get pissed at every step.
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Skye said:
Mmm. Being nuked is definitely not on my list of things of things to do (or have done to me) either…
North Korea is the most interesting situation that I think that the “world” has come across in a while, because I don’t think that it’s a purely communist state… it’s more… I don’t know. A theocracy with Kim Jong Il as a god-head. How to you combat that level of belief, even with dissenters?
Posted on November 6, 2006 3:27 PM; Permalink
Ranjani said:
Great point - but it’s not like the people can take him out of office anyway. Kim is pretty much representative of all of North Korea the way his father was before him. It’s all publicity; no one thinks about North Korea with South Korea prospering right below it. It’s just that sort of bias we have towards nations that aren’t democracies, I guess.
Ironically, I had to write a 4-7 minute speech on the nuclear test debacle for a debate competition, so that was a lot of fun :)
Posted on November 6, 2006 4:42 PM; Permalink