It’s tantrum week for the Axis of Evil. North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is in a snit because he wants $25 million in unfrozen bank funds and he wants the money … NOW! Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is having a fit because he wants dozens of visas so he and his retinue can jet to UN headquarters for a sanctions vote in New York and he wants those visas … NOW!
You might think that the United States, with its unilateralist, imperialist, hyper-militarized, muscle-flexing, cowboy superpower ways would tell these totalitarian nuclear-bomb-loving thugs to take a hike, or at least take a number and get in line. But no. While they sulk, our own State Department has been hustling like crazy to get Kim his money and Ahmadinejad his visas. Is this a foreign policy with a future?
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