Why We Should Take Dennis Rodman More Seriously -- Michael Hirsh, National Journal
If the only way to begin the drama between the U.S. and North Korea is with a clown show, then a weird, unemployed basketball star surely works as well as anyone.
Before we completely dismiss the idea of Dennis Rodman, diplomat, consider this: President Obama probably has more to talk about with Kim Jong-un right now than he does with John Boehner. Maybe basketball isn’t as important as the budget, but at least they won’t suffer through those awkward silences.
There is also a beautiful symmetry to the idea that the world’s strangest athlete got along so well with the world’s strangest autocrat. In the NBA, no one ever knew quite what to make of Rodman, except that he kept winning titles. In diplomacy, no one knows what to make of the Kim family, except that they keep exploding nukes.
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