Posted by
CeeJ on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:49:20 PM
Yay! I started a blog today. Now I can subject literally tens of people to my witty banter and acute observations.
What got me started today was this quote I read
from this article:Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday night that an agreement he
brokered 12 years ago for North Korea to halt nuclear weapons
development is “in the wastebasket." Carter contends the Bush
administration turned its back on the deal and labeled the isolated
nation part of an “axis of evil.”
It's frustrating to watch the politics of blame go on and on about who's fault it is that North Korea has nukes (maybe. kinda. sorta). Here's a newsflash: You know whose fault it
really is that the North Korean government is going nuclear? Try the
North Korean Government. Bush didn't sneak over there and hand them plans for a nuclear weapon (heck, he has trouble pronouncing the durn thing). They defied agreements they signed and lied to the world. It's their fault. Not Bush, not Clinton, and certainly not me (I swear. You got nothin' on me).
This is one of those pet peeves of mine in life: the "it's the victim's fault" line of thinking. It goes like this. "Yes, my car was broken into. But I left my
Best of Bread CD in plain view on the front seat, so it's my own fault." Wrong! First, no thief worth his salt would break in to steal a Bread CD. But secondly, you didn't destroy someone's private property and perform a crime of theft.. the thief did. It's his fault. It doesn't matter if you left the keys in the igintion and basket of Mallowmars on the front seat... it's the
thief that broke the law and he is the one to blame.
Same thing applies to North Korea. As hard as it is to fathom by some, everything is not Bush's fault. Except when I stepped in gum yesterday in the parking lot. That was Bush's fault.