Easy Tools

 The Consequences of Denying Human Depravity

We watched Hillary Clinton announce the "food for halting nuclear weapons development" deal with North Korea.  We listened to the public celebration of a supposedly enormous breakthrough and triumph by President Obama.  Incredulousness is the only appropriate response.

Here is a regime combining the bestial cunning of Stalin with the ghoulish psychopathy of Pol-Pot.  Its horrors, once revealed, will make future generations blanch.  It takes food from the West supposedly to relieve famine and uses it to feed its huge army.  The rest of the population are left to starve.
  It promises to halt its nuclear programme, with the caveat that it can reverse this decision at any time (i.e. once the food aid is delivered).  It leaves its plutonium project out of the agreement--meaning that it can keep on merrily nuking up. 

Repeatedly the United States has made these agreements with North Korea.  Repeatedly it has been duped, gulled, and deceived.  Mendacity is the hallmark of the absolute tyrant.  The US is such an easy tool.  It is so gullible.  The question is begged, Why?

Neither Clinton, nor Obama, nor the Commentariat in general believe in human depravity.  Their unrelenting view is that intrinsically every human being is holy, righteous, and good.  All evil is extrinsic: from the outside, from external circumstances, from the social and physical environment.  All people doing evil things can be reasoned with and appealed to and overcome with goodness if external pressures and temptations are relieved. 

Consequently, being nice to others makes them nice.  Being kind makes them kind.  Being reasonable encourages them to be and do the same.  Everyone agrees that the North Korean death-regime is paranoic (a common feature of all dictators): the West in its Unbelief assumes that being kind and proving its integrity and peaceful intentions will dissolve the paranoia.  Change the external temptations and provocations and the evil in North Korea will dissipate and sweet reasonableness and morality will break forth. 

This naive theological monstrosity makes the West an easy tool.  Regimes like North Korea and Iran  worked it out decades ago.  They play the West like a cheap ukulele.

Read now the epitaph of the West and the easy dupes who lead it:

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At time, indeed, almost ridiculous---
Almost, at times, the Fool.
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Full of high sentence, but obtuse; at times the Fool.  So passes the Unbelieving West and its leaders who are such easy tools. 

He who does not acknowledge in his own depravity will end up inflicting great evil upon the world.