How To Start A War
October 8, 2006
Step 1: Test a nuclear weapon
This is the first step to a new generation of warfare. North Korea has tested a nuke and now the U.S. will have to raise their alert level. It’s a bad situation all around. But maybe now the U.N. Security Council will get off their apathetic asses and do something. But you know there will be those that blame Bush for this.
“He didn’t do enough to stop this.”
“He should have agreed to one on one talks with North Korea.”
So, I ask why? Why is it always America’s job to handle situations like this? Isn’t that what the United Nations is for? Why is it always the U.S. that gets the blame when something along the lines of this happens? It’s happening with Darfur and, I may be jumping the gun only to find out that I’m totally wrong, but it’ll probably happen now. With the election less than a month away it only seem natural that politicians will jump on this to help their campaign. Whether you want to pass blame around or not, this is a bad situation we’re in.
Posted in America, Christopher Lee, George W. Bush, In The News, North Korea, War On Terror
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October 9th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Problem is, Bush thinks cold war tactics of containment aren’t enough (would have worked in Iraq BTW). Developing missile defense systems is interpreted by other countries as offensive because it would allow the US to strike another country with nukes and be able to defend itself. Same thing with the special warhead they’ve been discussing that can hit hardened command and control bunkers deeper than we’ve ever been able to before. The reaction by both Iran and N. Korea to Bush’s policy of preemptive war has been to become more aggressive.
October 9th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Matt,
So you’re sayin it’s all Bush’s fault, how original and thought provoking!
Guess you’re right Chris, the kooky wannabe Important little tin god dictators simply can’t do no wrong in the eyes of liberals and the french and the UN.
October 9th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Matt, good comments.
There’s really not a whole lot the U.S. can do at this point diplomatically. North Korea is so isolated that only China could make a difference. However, I don’t think we should respond militarily. The best we can hope for is that North Korea (like the Soviet Union) will eventually collapse under the weight of its own failed policies.
October 9th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Actually, I should have been more careful how I stated this. It is the North Korean government’s fault, not the Bush Administration’s. However, talking tough to extremists, who by definition will react more extremely than you probably will is folly. If America is going to involve itself at all, we have to do it correctly. That was my point and I regret that I didn’t more carefully state my position in the original post.
October 9th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Let me add for the record that I am all for eliminating the “kooky wannabe Important little tin god dictators.” I just think we should be doing it differently.
October 9th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Bomb test
What a mess is the best description of all this. Sanctions aren’t going to work, and leaving Kim in power could destabilize the region by the subsequent arming of Japan which will certainly cause tensions. Most of the region still doesn’t forget what…
October 9th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Sanctions will only hurt the North Korean people, who are already living in poverty and starving to death as it is, even more. And it’s still way too early to talk military action. I don’t know what could be done. Kim Jong Il may be a dangerous dictator, but he’s not stupid. China’s been letting them build their arsenal up for years claiming that everything will be okay. Then NK blindsides them with this. Maybe they’ll finally get tough.
Earlier this year, CNN did a really good report called “Undercover In The Secret State” that talked about what’s really going on over there. You should look for this. Very eye opening. Information is held so tightly in North Korea that most people don’t know what it’s really like.
October 9th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Somebody please give me an occation where appeasement ever worked in history, Pleeese! I really want to know that’s going to work! I’d like to be optimistic too, but seeing as how we’ve given half a billion dollars to ‘Lil kim, plus nuclear reactors and fuel for them, and many hundreds of millions of tons of food. and this is what we get as a “thanks”. I don’t see how giving them more stuff is going to make them happy.
wait a miniute! I know! It’s land that Mollifies terrorists! Land for peace! that’s it! LAND FOR PEACE!!!!!!! Who’s got some property to donate to the cause?
October 9th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Mark, it worked with Hitler. Wait, sorry. But it’s working in Darfur. Oops. Cambodia? No. I know. Iran…Damn.
October 10th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Appeasment…hmmm…didn’t the UN try that on in Bosnia too?
October 10th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
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