IN THE NEWS
At this rate, I'm struggling to get past the weekly new items that, given this blog's focus, need a little extra attention or context. I'd love to return to the time-hallowed principles of strategy, now that we're finally at the cusp of talking about terrorism and guerrilla warfare in greater detail.
But how can you ignore a story like, "Reverend Moon Provides North Korea with Submarine-Launched Nuclear Missile Technology"? I won't even try.
Reverend Moon straddles some of the most extreme political contradictions without causing him any apparent discomfort--perhaps because his worldview is so bizarre already that loving communists and anti-communists at the same time is neurotic chump change compared to psychoses like, "I'm Emperor of the Universe, and the spirits of all historically important individuals, from Jesus to Stalin, bow down before me!" Plus getting coronated in the Dirksen Office Building, with members of Congress watching or even participating in the ceremony. Moon is a major supporter of the radical right, and his Unification Church owns the ultra-conservative Washington Times. He also has spent the last several years trying his own, one-man version of detente with North Korea, including a $3 million "birthday present" to Kim Jung Il, plus tens of millions of dollars worth of subterranean payments to his father, Kim Il Sung. Moon wants to build a Unification Church Disneyland in North Korea, and, sadly, bribing the country's paranoid autocrat seems the only way Moon can make his dream come true.
Moon has already served a prison sentence for tax evasion. Now, if there is a just and angry God who doesn't like upstarts like Moon trying to seize his throne, he'll someday soon be facing even graver criminal charges for providing fellow Korean megalomaniac Kim Jung Il with dangerous SLBM technology through a Moon front company.
I bet he is just jealous of Glorious Leader's golf prowess.
Posted by: Oscar | 08/12/2004 at 19:55