Posted by
Andrews on Friday, March 21, 2008 4:58:54 PM
I was a bit shocked to read this from
Sky News writing about famine in North Korea:
But the food situation, which has mostly been felt in rural areas where
rations have been suspended since November, has now spread to the city,
according to the South Korean aid agency.
It has to be the unique contribution of communism to human civilization, a society where the farmers starve first. Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin and now Kim Jong Il, somehow these great leaders have found a way to make sure that the people who actually produce food have none themselves. And, stranger still, as they starve their farmers, these leaders wonder why food supplies continue to drop.
Of course, nothing will come of it. Perhaps some new tyrant will rise in North Korea. More likely we will bail out the mad little lunatic and allow him to continue oppressing and torturing his citizens.
But whatever the outcome in North Korea, the rest of the world will not change. Eighty years of communist failure, communist atrocities, and a complete failure to live up to even the most modest promises of the benefits of communism has yet to deter anyone from following this sad secular religion.
Sadly, I know my grandchildren will still hear communist rhetoric spouted by earnest intellectuals who really believe that they just need one more chance, and they will get everything right next time.