October 15, 2006
Apparently Mikhail Gorbachev is still out roaming the globe peddling his "America wins too much" ideology.
For those who didn't catch his act a few months ago, he's back on the stand-up circuit doing his same comedy routine. And honestly we've always liked his speeches better than say Howard Dean's or John Kerry's. Their meme this week of course is that the U.S. should enter unilateral talks with the North Koreans. And Mikhail is certainly on board with that, but he has this cool way of applying a "winner's complex" psychological motive to America's problems (because obviously the Soviet Union was not trying to win). Of course, Reuters helps him out in this regard, by turning Gorbachev into a man who "played a key role in ending the Cold War."
Yes. Yes he did. By losing it.
But that's really not what attracted us to the article. No, what got our attention was this little gem:
"Today our American friends are suffering from an illness worse than AIDS. And I would say this is the victor's complex," Gorbachev was quoted as saying in an interview with the Netzzeitung.But yet the reason China and Russia are in a position to "handle" Pyongyang is not because of America is a dwindling superpower, but because China and Russia are the permanent members of the Security Council who do the most business with that repressive, murderous, criminal and otherwise insane regime, and thus are most capable of punishing Pyongyang by cutting off cash flow, and oil, and food, and, that most sought after thing by all rogue regimes, legitimacy. That is, as long as everybody is committed to a non-military solution.Unable to extricate itself from its Cold War mentality, the United States was playing a dwindling role in world politics, while Russia, China, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan were becoming stronger, Gorbachev said.
North Korea, which said on Monday it had successfully completed a nuclear test, was an example. Only China and Russia were in a position to handle Pyongyang, he said.
Of course, as the task of bestowing legitimacy to outlaw regimes falls to the U.N. Secretary General and Jimmy Carter, Russia and China may only have limited power in that regard.
But in any case, we have bigger things to worry about, as this winner's complex we've been exposed to is now apparently more deadly than AIDS.
So everyone should probably go and take Kerry's Global Test immediately and make sure you're not infected. Otherwise, you could be consigned to optimistic thinking, hard work, success, capitalism, the democratic process, living in the greatest country on earth, and political and religious freedom - for the rest of your life.
It's absolutely terrifying.
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