The Bush administration has a new weapon in its foreign policy arsenal: the iPod. Or rather, the withholding of the iPod.
In an unprecedented move, the United States has decided to ban the sales of hi-tech luxury goods to North Korea.
Wasn’t much of the vitriol towards North Korea’s leader, Lil’ Kim due to the fact that the people were starving, while he lived in opulence?
So what exactly is to be gained by banning the sale of plasma televisions and jet skis? Is that what has been wrong with our approach to sanctions – we were targeting the bottom, when we should have been targeting the top? The rich?
The Cuban people will be so happy to hear that.
The Bush administration just doesn’t get it, do they? They seem to believe that the entire world is populated with the same incessantly pampered me-monkeys we have here at home.
Take away their toys and then they’ll behave? Someone’s been buying into his own marketing hype.
The answer to North Korean crisis is diplomacy – true diplomacy. That means talking directly to North Korea. This idea that we only engage in diplomacy with our friends is the real threat to our security, not Kim’s Dong.
Is it 2008 yet?
