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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to be in the minority here re NK but... [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I'm saying that one, North Korea is a totalitarian shithole- no quotes needed, it's a simple statement of fact-
and two, in regards to your suggestion of aid, while in the case of somewhere like Iraq it makes sense, of a sort, because in addition to the war we ended up dumping billions of dollars worth of duffel bags full of cash there as well; the fact is, in general, when we, say, deliver food to a Somali warlord because the people in Somalia are starving, who do you think gets the food? The starving people?
No, the warlord takes it.
So it's questionable whether aid in such a situation will do much of anything except entrench the powers that be.
I marched against the Iraq war every chance I got. I'm not advocating for war against North Korea, my main response in this thread is that North Korea is a perfect example of why we want competent, intelligent, thoughtful leadership in DC- because there ARE no easy answers, and a damn shortage of good ones.
But I'm also not going to sit here pretending that somehow, even with the assholes in our country, even with our history, even with the orange clusterfuck in the oval office we have now- that there is any sort of comparison between the system we live under, and the shit that the poor people of North Korea have to endure.