Don't Look Now, But...
North Korea is going to start lobbing things (nuclear things that go bump in the night) soon. Colin "I'm No Houseboy, Massa Belafonte" Powell is wagging his finger at crazy Kim and parroting the company line. "We will not be intimidated by their claims and threats. As the president has said, we will not be blackmailed." I am going to make a big assumption that anyone reading this knows that North Korea is not BLACKMAILING the US. The American Heritage dictionary defines blackmail as:
The present administration does not want to attempt to cajole (to urge with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery) them as the Clinton administration did; the Resident and his advisors are afraid of being bamboozled (to conceal one's true motives from esp. by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end). So they will not attempt to wheedle (to persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile) or to palaver (to talk idly or deceitfully) the North Koreans. No, this administration would rather play the role of importuner (one who pleads or urges irksomely, often persistently) or of hector (a bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes). This jackbooted (the spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian regime or system) pair of governments only threaten and demand - no diplomacy allowed.
I hear its nice in Greenland this time of year...
1. Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.So no blackmail unless they have photo's of Cheney with his hand up the Resident's ass like some sort of Rick Santorum Howdy Doody nightmare.
2. Something of value extorted in this manner.
The present administration does not want to attempt to cajole (to urge with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery) them as the Clinton administration did; the Resident and his advisors are afraid of being bamboozled (to conceal one's true motives from esp. by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end). So they will not attempt to wheedle (to persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile) or to palaver (to talk idly or deceitfully) the North Koreans. No, this administration would rather play the role of importuner (one who pleads or urges irksomely, often persistently) or of hector (a bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes). This jackbooted (the spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian regime or system) pair of governments only threaten and demand - no diplomacy allowed.
I hear its nice in Greenland this time of year...
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