The Interview (available for free on YouTube, BTW) seems pretty clearly to lack much of a plot - especially when compared to the NoKo hack that tried to bully Sony Pictures into pulling it. Or, at the very least, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suspects it:
Senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he can't imagine North Korean hackers hit Sony Pictures' computers without China knowing at least something about it.
"I can't imagine anything this massive happening in North Korea without China being involved or at least knowing about it,"the South Carolina Republican told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."
It does seem difficult to believe, doesn't it? I think even the hawkiest of us on the Right lose sight of just how valuable an asset to the ChiComms North Korea is. It may be the most classic example of a geopolitical "good cop/bad cop" act the world has ever seen. Beijing gets to pose as a legitimate, "responsible," reasonable member in good standing of the "international community" (even while arming to the teeth to eventually conquer it) while using the Kim regime for all the overtly commie-pinko saber-rattling and warmongering - and now cyberterrorism - in which they used to engage but on which they now no longer want their propaganda fingerprints.
Does this mean that it was really Xi Jinping who approved the Sony hack and not Kim Jong-Un? Not necessarily. Does this mean they had the NoKo's do it for them with the ample camouflage of taking down a movie that overtly targeted the cornfed dictator for public ridicule? Quite possibly. Why? To demonstrate how vulnerable we are to cyberattack pretty much across the board - definitely an expressed concern of Senator Graham, along with Barack Obama's trademark weak-assed response to it:
And while Graham gave President Barack Obama some praise for how he's handled North Korea and its cyber attack on Sony Pictures over its controversial comedy "The Interview," he said the president could still go further when it comes to making North Korea "feel the pain that is due."
He told Bash that Obama should return North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terror, and called for added sanctions against leader Kim Jong Un's regime.
Graham also criticized Obama for labeling the attacks on Sony's systems as "cybervandalism" during a CNN interview last week, and not as cyberterrorism.
"What's happened here it shows how exposed we are in America to cyberattack," Graham said Sunday. "If North Korea can do this to a major corporation in America, what can other people do to our country?"
Here we see another advantage to the ChiComms of having North Korea as their catspaw: There really isn't any practical conventional military response that can be mustered against them for any provocation because of the "hermit kingdom's" geographic location, its conventional military superiority over South Korea holding the latter virtual hostage, and its contiguousness with Red China itself. And since North Korea, like Red China, is a nuclear power, the only other military means - tactical nuclear strikes - are even more impractical.
This is why the NoKos can do anything they want - or, rather, anything their superiors in Beijing will sanction. Returning Pyongyang to the state sponsors of terror list (figures that O took them off of it) and renewed sanctions are purely symbolic measures that will have no impact on the NoKos (and his infernal majesty will never take those steps anyway), but they are all we can really do if we don't want to bring about another global war several years prematurely.
Which is at least a little ironic, given the statement the Kim regime released over the weekend:
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest"? Wow, nothing bigoted about that, is there? Or is flagrant racism only considered the unforgivable sin if it comes from a white conservative (whether or not it actually does), but commie "gooks" get a free pass?
I guess we'll have to wait for The Interview II to find out.
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