It seems that paying tribute to barbarians is an ancient old characteristic of aged and usually declining civilizations. We are guilty as well. It is humiliating and cowardly, so why do we do it?
For example, we released confiscated funds to North Korea, provided free food and fuel, and have now taken them off of our terrorist list even though they kidnapped Japanese citizens who they refuse to return. They break every promise they make to our government and yet we continue to do favors for them on the promise they will allow us to inspect their nuclear facilities. In historical terms, this is all known as paying tribute to the barbarians. We threatened Iran with destruction, but barter and bribe North Korea. Why are we so inconsistent? Our government pretends to peacefully solve the North Korean nuclear threat by making grand peace deals which it that even our own government knows will be violated. Each administration does that to keep alive the impression of making progress in hopes the barbarians can be kept pacified until the next administration. This has been going on for over a whole generation. But why has the negotiating always failed? The reason is that the US has no negotiating leverage. It cannot threaten North Korea---as it has done with Iran. The US government knows that China will defend North Korea in such a confrontation because it is a fellow Marxist system. The public is so confused over the term “communism” that it wrongly assumes that China has changed and is no longer “communist.” China is a Marxist nation like North Korea. Both have a system built up from the philosophy of Karl Marx with a lot of modification and adapting done by Lenin and others until it evolved into a somewhat workable system. In other words, the US public does not know that China would back North Korea in a confrontation with the US and the US government does not want the public to know---which they would indeed find out fast if the US government ever did threaten North Korea! Hence, we pay tribute to the barbarians . . . charles, http://athesitic-science.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
