tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post3137890331312836148..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Official Aid and ComfortGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-28965278000194305302007-02-14T00:38:00.000-06:002007-02-14T00:38:00.000-06:00Wow, cool, I'm not the only one using the "T" word...Wow, cool, I'm <A HREF="http://z7.invisionfree.com/capitalistparadise/index.php?showtopic=1048" REL="nofollow">not</A> the only one using the "T" word!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-72971944042659127552007-02-13T13:30:00.000-06:002007-02-13T13:30:00.000-06:00Even more amazing is that many people, addled by t...Even more amazing is that many people, addled by the same influences of Pragmatism and altruism, would laugh in your face if you tried to explain to them that this is all a result of people acting according to the moral guidance (or lack thereof in the case of Pragmatism) they have absorbed over the course of their lives. <BR/><BR/>That is, if you could convince them that there was a problem in the first place. After all, we haven't been bombed yet.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-86185935450521044112007-02-13T12:59:00.000-06:002007-02-13T12:59:00.000-06:00Talk about willingly making the very rope you know...Talk about willingly making the very rope you know you are about to be hanged with.<BR/><BR/>Gus, what you say is true -- this really does seem unreal. I, for one, have the hardest time grasping that anybody could be THIS blind!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-86222280192287091952007-02-13T10:55:00.000-06:002007-02-13T10:55:00.000-06:00Nice. Should the North Koreans incinerate an Ameri...Nice. Should the North Koreans incinerate an American city, we will have chipped in three dollars for every man, woman, and child to make it happen.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-68157811068037772742007-02-13T10:27:00.000-06:002007-02-13T10:27:00.000-06:00In sheer dollar terms, the amount of ransom we hav...In sheer dollar terms, the amount of ransom we have paid to the North Koreans from 1995 to 2003 totals $1.026 billion. All the gory details are here in this report by the Congressional Research Service, an arm of the U.S. Congress:<BR/><BR/>http://www.nautilus.org/DPRKBriefingBook/uspolicy/CRSUSAidtoDPRK.pdf<BR/><BR/>Approximately 40% of the aid was food, 60% fuel oil, and we also helped pay for North Koreans to build two light-water nuclear reactors(!).<BR/><BR/>Essentially, we have paid for the nuclear bombs that the North Koreans are building to threaten us with.<BR/><BR/>Bush continues the same failed and treasonous policy that Clinton began in 1994 with his "Agreed Framework" that called for these expenditures and led to the North Koreans apparently testing a nuclear bomb only a few months ago.<BR/><BR/>It is one thing to not support an enemy; it is quite another to actually pay for the weapons they use to attack us with.<BR/><BR/>Watch for similar behavior by the U.S. in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, with a similar outcome -- i.e., the successful development of a nuclear bomb. They are laughing at us right now, in fact right in front of credulous Americans such as Diane Sawyer who interviewed Ahmadinejad on ABC News. She asked him if he feels threatened by the United States. You could see his eyes crinkle as he laughed in answer to her question.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com