NEOCONDOS?... KIM YOUNG-HIE EMBARASSES JOONG AHN

HatTip to James Taranto's Best of the Web Today. JoongAng Ilbo's columnist made me blush as a Korean American. What was he thinking in writing this:

Meanwhile, in the JoongAng Daily, an English-language South Korean paper, senior columnist Kim Young-hie explains the goal of the neoconspiracy: "One of the hidden purposes with which the neo-conservatives in Washington started a war against Iraq was to democratize the Middle East and build a condominium that the United States and Israel could jointly manage."

A neocondo? Taking over the whole government seems like an awfully complicated way of getting into the real estate business.

I think it was edited out after Taranto posted his comments up.