Want to know why America is on its way out?

[akujunkan]

Here's your answer: Question: which of these foreign heads of state just visited America?
a) Gordon Brown
b) The pope
c) Lee Myung-bak

Answer: if you said: b), the pope, you LOSE. They were all here.

Now, here's a bonus word problem:
The pope said some masses and visited a synogague (which is indeed commendable). Brown discussed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the crumbling western economy, and the criminal Zimbabwean and Sudanese regimes. Lee Myung-bak made the first visit ever by a South Korean head of state to Camp David, discussed the upcoming U.S.-ROK FTA (the U.S.'s second largest after NAFTA), the redeployment of U.S. forces out of South Korea, and the upcoming handover of wartime control from the U.S. to the ROK. Out of these three topic areas, which has (have) the greatest repercussions for the U.S.?

If you said: everything but what the pope did, you win! For extra credit, can anyone tell me which of these received 24-hour coverage on the news channels to the exclusion of the other two?

Frankly, this is why Americans fail so miserably when it comes to international relations, and why we ended up with 4,000 war dead and a horrible president, but one that most of us deserve thanks to our willful ignorance.

"But the pope spoke out about human rights!" say the naysayers.
Fine. The pope mouthed some pretty words concerning human rights. But let me remind you that the Roman Catholic Church, in refusing to enfranchise gays and more to the point, women (who make up 52 percent of the world population), is the largest discriminatory organization on earth. That the head of that organization has the temerity to lecture others on human rights is simply galling.

That will be all.

Comments

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

can anyone tell me which of these received 24-hour coverage on the news channels to the exclusion of the other two?
The Pope?
tell me if I won something *excited*
"But the pope spoke out about human rights!"
Adding insult to injury: Catholic church doesn't believe that working like a pack mule until you die and with no right to find a better future is a modern form of slavery...
BY THE WAY POPE, WHERE THE HECK IS THAT BASTARD PRIEST THAT RAPED THOSE ORPHANS IN MY COUNTRY?
/end of hijack

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Erm. You sure did win something. How about....TEH INTRANETS!?


::cough::

Oh man, the way the RCC has historically handled child sexual abuse by its clergy can set me off like few other things in this world...which is truly a scary thing, as a lot of things set me off;-)

BTW, did you ever link to that slavery article you'd mentioned in the other post? If you did, I missed it.

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

I won teh intranets?
NOOOO it is full of aids and boys that want to be the *little girl*
Link? er, no I am lazy D:
I will translate it asap....

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Oh, holy crap--I thought it was in English! If not don't worry. You've got better stuff to do than become my personal translator;-)

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

Hey... it is not like that!
I need to practice my English grammar... because I have noticed it's going downhill lately...
I just need to find a better (aka more reliable and exact) source to do that stuff, you wouldn't believe the few coverage this stuff got.
If you want to conquer the world you need to monopolise the news channels.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Heh, don't worry; from where I'm standing, your English is great. I wish I could write in Japanese as well as you do English.

If you want to conquer the world you need to monopolise the news channels.
Hey, funny you should mention that (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?em&ex=1209009600&en=3ee3387c020a7f71&ei=5087%0A)...

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

Something which might be of interest.


The international media is, from what I've seen*, no better. I had no idea anyone other than the Pope had been visiting the US.

*Not as much as I would when the kids are at school. I think the Pope got at least a page about his visit. I do remember the listings of US presidents who've met popes. Obviously extremely relevant to us.


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[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

The international media is, from what I've seen*, no better. I had no idea anyone other than the Pope had been visiting the US.
True, but I still maintain that who's visiting the U.S. has less relevance for you than it does us. And still people don't care.

And yes, there is a large roman catholic political block in the U.S. ... but I fail to see how the pope's visit honestly affects their lives as tangibly as the 2nd largest FTA we've ever negotiated.

(Ah, Avatar...that affects my life more than anything...)

I am ashamed...not for me.

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

I did know that Gordon Brown was here, but it was briefly mentioned and there was no talk about the policy being discussed. Basically I had to gather from the lack of information that he was just trying to take up where Blair left off. I had absolutely NO idea that Lee Myung-bak was here. Although who cares about South Korea, right? I mean, isn't the Middle East SO much more important than the Asian coastal countries? But in a funny related story, Kim Jong Ill(yes, he makes me ill), that bastard from North Korea that Bush refuses to stand up to, even garnering evidence that he has helped Syria with nuclear capabilities, was chosen as the Root of All Evil on the new show on Comedy Central staring Lewis Black.

Re: I am ashamed...not for me.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't know myself that Brown was visiting until his final day in town. (Maybe that's due to my area focus, but still.)

LOL on your KJIll pun--I'll have to remember that one. Especially now that we're backing down on their intransigence re: the denuclearization deal on the one hand, and accusing them of proliferating to Syria on the other.

Oh wait--I get it! It's because the ME *is* so much more important than East Asia, right? And bush hopes to invade Syria and Iran before he's out of office to usher in the end times.

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