A brief break in the “OMG Paula Abdul is leaving ‘Idol'” freak-out session to focus for a moment on yet another nail in the coffin in which lies our foreign policy.
Before some halfwit feebly attempts to construe my criticism of how the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee was handled rest assured that I am totally stoked that they were released. Lee has a daughter who needs her mother, both have families who love them and neither deserved to be thrown in a North Korean prison. It tugged at my heart strings to watch Lee embrace her four-year-old daughter on the tarmac.
However.
There’s the issue of President Obama leapfrogging over Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, and deferring to her husband, the former president, to act as a private citizen and skip on down to North Korea, take photos with an actual, life-sized troll doll Kim John Ill, and subsequently apologized to the North Korean leader. This after Robert Gibbs backed Ahmadinejad as “Iran’s elected leader,” and the administration supported dictator-wannabe Zelaya. The track record isn’t so great.
Photos like the one at the left are moving.
But let us not forget that these women were used as pawns.
Pawns by a dictator who, just last month, was lobbing rockets towards Hawaii.
Pawns by Al Gore and his Current TV, who sent these women to hostile territory and then went AWOL when they were captured, only to show up in time for the photo op on the tarmac.
Pawns by an administration who admits its eagerness to negotiate with terrorists, give support to Honduras leaders who try to circumvent their country’s democracy, and ignore the screams in the streets of Iran.
Pawns. By the men running these operations.
North Korea called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a “schoolgirl.” Maybe that’s why Bill Clinton was sent. What a strong message to the female community and here these insane people lap it up, just as they lapped at Bill Clinton’s feet during his term, despite the rape allegations, sexual assault suits, and intern affair.
Instead of Bill Clinton going, the White House should have sent Hillary with much ado about its blessing, and Hillary should have stormed into Lil’ Kim’s office and pimp-slapped him.
We have their release, but at what cost? Will this emerge as some sort of North Korea Contra years later?
So while I’m glad that Laura Ling and Euna Lee are home, forgive me if I’m not totally pumping my fist in the air over yet another example of a bunch of dippy men using women as pawns and sacrificing another pillar of our foreign policy simply for a photo op.
Gen. Gordon Cucullu said similar on the show this morning. He says this (and the Russian sub story) is more menacing than Cash for Clunkers, but smaller, localized things such as the CARS program allows people to get involved and changes the guard at the state level, then national level, which in turn could alter the trajectory (election-wise) of foreign policy. Just a different perspective.
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