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July 6, 2007
by Jerry Kroth, Ph.D.
Stuart Levey is unknown to most Americans. He is an undersecretary of state at the Treasury Department. Sometimes little people play enormously important roles in the unfolding of history. Stuart has a great chance to be a player. According to Think Tank Watch Analysis, Stuart Levey was "vetted" by the Israeli lobby, AIPAC, under George Bush. He's one of their stars, one of their own, and enjoyed an insider role in the government under Bush and now under President Obama. His position, it seems, is secure despite the fact that one administration was corrupt, lied to the American people, killed 100,000 people in Iraq, failed to regulate Bernie Madoff, Hank Greenberg, AIG, the derivatives market, and ended up bilking the American people over $8 trillion in net worth. But Stuart survived all that and is happy to report he is still a point man now in the Obama administration. How curious! Stuart Levey is still on the job. What's he working on? Well, he is working on squeezing the dictator of North Korea. Stuart thinks Kim Jung Il might just be planning on selling weapons to the Middle East, nuclear weapons. That was Stuart's job under Bush, and his task under Hillary Clinton and President Obama. To try to stop Kim from doing that to Israel. Now maybe "punishment," and "sanctions" are precisely the things to pursue, but we need to reflect on something. Kim Jung Il is mentally ill. No other way to say it, folks. Imagine you moved into a new neighborhood and spoke to your next-door neighbor over the fence. He tells you he just went golfing for the first time in his life and made seven holes in one on his very first try. "Hmmm," you say. No sooner had you uttered that "Hmmm" that he told you "By the way, if you ever come onto my property without my knowledge or permission, I will incinerate your house with you and all your children inside!" "Whoa!" The next day you pack up and leave. You want no part of this. Your neighbor is mentally ill, obviously. Kim Jung Il, who has said all of the above -- and more -- is also mentally ill. Our media doesn't say that, exactly. It says he's "seeking attention," but anyone who has ever had a course in abnormal psychology knows how to spot delusional psychosis. And to top it off, he just had a stroke, is extremely gaunt, and his left arm doesn't work anymore. That makes the volcano more not less ready to blow. Back to Stuart: Guess what, Stuart has taken on the job of trying to "punish" Kim. That's right. His job is to find ways to punish a mentally ill paranoid psychotic. Stuart, you see, is not representing peace, not representing the interests of the American people, and is certainly not representing rationality or sanity. He is representing Israel, and what he has decided to do is to try to pressure North Korea's dictator to cut off his finances and escalate as much as he can all the innumerable pressures on Kim until Kim says "uncle," gives up, submits and surrenders. Now pause for a second and ask yourself, would you like to punish your nutty neighbor, to "squeeze" this lunatic, to use leverage and force him into submission, or would you consider other, perhaps saner, alternatives? A sane policy toward Kim would be to placate him, to be aware of his mental disorder, to give him a sense of security (like signing a non-aggression pact), to help him relax a bit (by starting diplomatic relations and opening an embassy), and, at the same time, to convene a group of senior psychiatrists to help the State Department and Mrs. Clinton deal with this unpredictable, vicious, and unstable maniac who just happens to be brandishing nuclear weapons during his delusional episodes. But that is not the policy we are pursuing. We are entrusting Stuart to go out there and find ways to punish a mentally unstable paranoid who has nuclear bombs in his pocket, has threatened to use them, and boasts he's a better golfer, on his first try, than Tiger Woods could ever hope to be -- despite his paralysis. If our delusional Dr. Strangelove reaches his tipping point, is pushed over the edge and does something horrific, irrational, and insane -- taking with him hundreds of thousands of lives -- you can thank Mrs. Clinton, Stuart, and AIPAC for this incredible idiocy.
Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. is a professor and psychologist in California and the author of Conspiracy in Camelot: the complete history of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. New York: Algora Publishers, 2001). He may be reached at jerrykroth@yahoo.com
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