July 30, 2007

  • Here's a thought...

    For every hostage killed, pledge to send in 1,000 troops into Afghanistan to dig through every fox hole and smoke out every last Taliban militant.  Considering that they've killed a second male missionary, that would bring the total up to 2,000 and implementation could commence... oh... NOW. 

    As you can tell, I'm not above calling certain "humans" a waste of skin or wishing them a cruel and unusual death.

    But Mr. Special Envoy from the ROK should really take a lesson in hard-line diplomacy and realize that "negotiating" with them or buying off terrorists will only ensure that the next time they're hard up for money or power they'll return to capturing South Koreans (and any other foreigner) as bargaining chips and ticking time bombs. 

    But of course, the realism settles in and Korea will never take that hard line stance because it has no balls.  It never has.  Thousands of years of being conquered, raped, pillaged, and destroyed by its neighbors.  Tough enough to survive through it but never strong enough to stand up against it and ensure that it doesn't happen again.  Koreans get beaten time and time again, and with a bloodied face and lifted fist trembling in rage they mumble, "you bastard."  That, my friends, is the meaning of "HAN" in all its historically-pertinent glory.  It is not some greater passion or heartache for an injustice, it is festering anger, putrid hate, and a grudge that cannot evolve from its rigid impotence.

    It is pathetic.