December 30, 2005
WEREN'T 500,000 DEAD IRAQIS ENOUGH?:
US threat over N Korean food aid (BBC, 12/30/05)
The US says it will stop giving food aid to North Korea unless it lets international relief workers monitor its distribution.The US said it wanted to check aid - channelled through the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) - reached the needy.
The statement comes as the WFP prepares to halt food aid to North Korea after Pyongyang said it was no longer needed.
Even a tendentious regime change in Iraq has only cost 30,000 lives on its way to democracy, as opposed to the 500,000 kids we killed with sanctions. Why repeat the error? Posted by Orrin Judd at December 30, 2005 8:02 AM
I think I'm beginning to recognize this Third Way of yours. Got any data to back up the statement that the USA is responsible for 500,000 dead kiddies?
Posted by: NC3 at December 30, 2005 8:12 AM75,000 Iraqi lives, not 30,000, and what makes you think that 500,000 NoKo civilians aren't going to starve, even if we give their government food to distribute ?
You maintain that nobody needs privacy who doesn't do evil, so what possible non-malignant motive could Kim Jung Il have for kicking out all of the foreign aid workers ?
Any food that gets sent to NoKo is going to end up in the bellies of soldiers, period.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://brothersjuddblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 30, 2005 8:16 AM
Michael:
Exactly. We oughtn't send food--we should change the regime.
Posted by: oj at December 30, 2005 8:37 AMNC3:
That's what opponents of our Iraq policy said until we decided to save lives instead:
http://www.reason.com/0203/fe.mw.the.shtml
Posted by: oj at December 30, 2005 8:38 AMIf we succeeded in regime change, what do we do for an encore? Unification with SK? Other?
Posted by: erp at December 30, 2005 3:52 PMIf SK paid any attention to West Germany they'll refuse to unify.
Posted by: oj at December 30, 2005 4:14 PM