Today, on the 67 anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, we know more of the content of the letter the blowhard George W. Bush sent to Chairman Kim Jong-il of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. My how his rhetoric has changed in more than 5 years, and boy, has he swallowed his cardinal sin of pride.
Bush wants something to buoy up his sad and sorry record in the American presidency. He had hoped, the DPRK, to call North Korea by its rightful name, would have shut down its nuclear programme by December 2007. It won't...more probably it will be in the first months of 2008.
Bush is full of Christmas goodies to lay under Kim's tree: removal of the DPRK from his list of terrorists, diplomatic recognition, economic largesse, so on and on...
Bush's letter is a disaster for his neo-con band of thugs who have pinned on the DRPK all the sins of the world since the explusion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Bush has become what his disgraced Republican predecessor in the White House 'a pitiful giant'.
He needs something to put in the black in his ledger of governance which remains in deep dark red.
Had Bush what in Yiddish is 'sekkal', he would never have strayed from Clinton's readiness to deal with Pyongyang. But like the street-gang leader he is, he was so cocksure of himself, so sure that he lied his country into a failed and failing war in Iraq, and has to come hat in hand to Chairman Kim to help him out in extremis so that in the annals of his presidency he has one bright moment of glory.
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