Let us hope the War Party is somehow restrained.
And, by the way, don’t forget, this never would have happened if George W. Bush and his band of raving ex-Trotskyoids hadn’t blown the deal secured by "Yes, we think the price is worth it" Albright and pushed North Korea into withdrawing from the NPT - which is illegitimate in the first place, but was working fine.
And while we’re at it, who cares if North Korea has nukes anyway? How the hell is that any of my business, or my government’s? It’s not.
I had a vivid dream, the other night, that a north korean nuclear test was rapidly followed by an American SLBM nuke attack on their main installations. Scared the hell out of me.
And yet, after waking up, it wouldn’t surprise me TOO much if that is precisely what happened.
I agree 100% it is none of our business and they are NO THREAT to the America. I do think that KIM is probably the most purely evil ruler of any country on the planet. I’d love to see an inside the palace coup. I don’t think most American realize how evil this fuck is. Note I am saying evil – NOT DANGEROUS – as the as the USA is concerned. It is one thing to say their Nuke program is not a threat and none of our concern – it is another to praise Kim as “just trying to protect his people” and such I’m seeing on a lot of Left Wing Anti – War sites. I truly believe that unlike Aminajead (Iran) who I see as repressive/theocratic but NOT evil – this guy is evil.
Agreed, but perhaps you and I might adopt a different view of what “evil is”. I see evil as not as a kind of anti-good but as a spoiled good or a twisted good.
That is, both Iran’s guy and North Korea’s Kim may want what is ultimately good (security for their people) but are willing to go to despicable means (i.e., the usual method of the State–force, coercion and violence–but magnified to the 10th power) to try to attain it.
Iran’s leader is nowhere near as wacky as Kim, though, and not as disconnected from reality or his own people. And so if either nation posed a threat at all, it’s not Iran more than North Korea.
The best thing the United States can do for North Korea is congradulate it publically for now possessing weapons that are capable of incinerating millions of people with the flick of a switch, and to wish it lots of luck (but do not specify whether this “luck” is good or bad).
Then the United States should declare North Korea to be a giant market for American goods, and that individual Americans are no longer barred from trading with indvidual Koreans, and that it is the patriotic duty of Americans to trade with and communiate with this poor oppressed human beings. Give this situation–free trade–a few years and before long you will see the inner toppling of the Kim dictatorship as his regime’s statements and edicts not only become more absurd, but simply archaic and obsolete, boring, and utterly ignored.
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Aminijead, post 9 – 11 wanted to normalize relations with the US and made a gemerous offer to assist us. He has complied with everything the UN has asked of him. He is also a guy from the streets. His (theocratic) world view is very different than my own but mosts of his gripes are legit (see his UN speeech and the 60 minute interview). Kim is a venal piece of garbage. This is the kinda guy I could really bust a nut on breaking him down like the grubby little bitch that he is.
How long will it be before some neocon-man asks “Has Newsweek joined the ‘blame America first’ crowd?”
There is an interesting Newsweek piece here.
“….Oct. 16, 2006 issue – On Sept. 19, 2005, North Korea signed a widely heralded denuclearization agreement with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea. Pyongyang pledged to “abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs.” In return, Washington agreed that the United States and North Korea would “respect each other’s sovereignty, exist peacefully together and take steps to normalize their relations.”
Four days later, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sweeping financial sanctions against North Korea designed to cut off the country’s access to the international banking system, branding it a “criminal state” guilty of counterfeiting, money laundering and trafficking in weapons of mass destruction.
The Bush administration says that this sequence of events was a coincidence. …”
Enuff said??
From ‘The Guardian’ (UK)…
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea – a country he now regards as part of the “axis of evil” and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons…
Reminds me of the joke from a couple of years back. Rumsfeld says ‘we know Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction’. “How So?” asks the reporter. “We kept the receipts.”
Scott, you forgot to mention the fact the former CIA analyst Richard Barlow had informed then Sec. of Defense Dick Cheney about Abdul Qadeer Kahn’ network of selling nuclear technology. Who was one of Khan’s customers. You guessed it. North Korea. (Iran was also a customer as well.) So if we are to blame someone, it rest on the shoulders of one Dick Cheney. Thanks DickHead
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