U.S. Aims to Ban iPod Sales to North Korea
WASHINGTON (Nov. 29) – In a novel effort targeting the lifestyle of North Korea’s eccentric president, the Bush administration wants to make it tougher for him to buy iPods, plasma televisions, Segway electric scooters and more.

Yep! There you go! Our state department has finally hit on the means of achieving world peace.

I’m sure that Kim Jong Il will run up the white flag of surrender now.

I don’t know which is the biggest fool.

Harsh words, Joe! Right! I’m so mad I could spit!

Thousands of my Christian brothers in North Korea are enduring undescribable torture because of their faith in  the Jesus Lord under Kim. Millions of the citizens of North Korea are in forced labor prisions and the general population is being starved to death.

Experts said the U.S. luxury sanctions would be the first ever to curtail a specific category of goods not associated with military buildups or weapons designs – and the first tailored to annoy a foreign leader. They acknowledge that enforcing the ban on black-market trading would be difficult.  [emphasis mine]

Makes sense to me. “Annoy” an evil, deranged, ego-manical dictator, on purpose. Shucks, he’ll just take out his frustrations on the littl’ ol’ population. Why, everyone should be so fortunate to have such a “punching bag” to hit on when frustrated! 

“He’s got folks who can move around nuclear weapons. If he tells these guys to get him a case of Scotch, they’re going to pull it off,” said James A. Lewis, a former State Department official who worked on arms controls. “Unless it’s too large to fit into the cargo hold of a commercial aircraft, it’s going to be tough to restrain him.”

Let the state department think tank folks change places with the North Korean population and then determine if such a stupid gesture accomplished its intended goal.

As a nation we have been blessed by God Almighty with resources beyond our imagination to make a difference both in this world and in the one to come. And the best we can do is to make it a bit more difficult for evil to listen to its favorite tunes?