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September 16, 2005

Iran, North Korea: How Stupid can "Pundits" Be?

This is an astonishing article by Time Magazine's China Bureau Chief Matthew Forney. I'll comment after the quote: Why China's Not Backing Bush on Iran

[...]But Pyongyang wants a deal that would replace its current reactor with a light-water reactor, whose fuel cycle is not conducive to a weapons program, paid for by the other parties to the talks. China supports North Korea's position and wishes the U.S. would just give in. After all, the U.S. in 1994 had promised to build a nearly identical light-water reactor for North Korea as part of a deal to quash the country's nuclear weapons program. That deal unraveled in 2002.[...]

And why exactly did Clinton's deal "unravel"? Because North Korea never intended to keep it. Geez.

[...]No one disputes that North Korea needs an energy source - oil, nuclear, something - to address a shortage that causes regular blackouts, even in the capital.[...]

Blackouts are not caused by "a shortage" you moron, but because North Korea is a frigging Communist dictatorship who spends whatever little money it has in things like a nuclear program, not in energy production.

Mr. Hu may also be thinking in terms of payback. Remember just a few months ago, when China's state-run oil company, CNOOC, bid to buy California-based Unocal? Capitol Hill went crazy with talk that China was muscling in on America's strategic interests. China's leaders were baffled by all the politicking: CNOOC made a pretty good offer, they thought; Chevron wound up bidding less but still winning the deal. So Mr. Hu is in no mood to hear Mr. Bush talk about how China should use its leverage against Iran.

So, Mr. Hu was also thinking of payback six months or a year ago, when the Unocal deal hadn't even begun, and his position was the same? I wish I could really think Mr. Forney was merely stupid. But considering the long tradition of American journalists defending whatever backwater dictatorship they are in against America, I think he's moved by more sinister motives.

Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 16, 2005 8:48 AM

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