Just remember, this happened entirely on Bush's watch
As just about everyone knows by now, N. Korea detonated a nuclear bomb last night. Just rememer, this happened entirely on Bush's watch - from beginning to end. The plutonium in the bomb they exploded last night was made from plants that were closed and subject to U.N. inspection when Bush took office.
The man's "I won't negotiate with evil-doers" idiocies led us here. God knows where it will lead us in the future.
And, lest you think dropping a few bombs on N. Korea is the answer, from what I understand, it would take the N. Koreans only about 3 hours to cross the DMZ in force, overwhelm our troops and the S. Korean troups, and overrun Seoul. It would happen just about as fast as the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. Sure, we would then bomb N. Korea back to the dark ages (where it already is), and, after re-instituting the draft, training up the new kids, negotiating staging sites in the Far East, moving troops and equipment for a year, the end result might be to drive the N. Koreans back into N. Korea. Great!
The man's "I won't negotiate with evil-doers" idiocies led us here. God knows where it will lead us in the future.
And, lest you think dropping a few bombs on N. Korea is the answer, from what I understand, it would take the N. Koreans only about 3 hours to cross the DMZ in force, overwhelm our troops and the S. Korean troups, and overrun Seoul. It would happen just about as fast as the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. Sure, we would then bomb N. Korea back to the dark ages (where it already is), and, after re-instituting the draft, training up the new kids, negotiating staging sites in the Far East, moving troops and equipment for a year, the end result might be to drive the N. Koreans back into N. Korea. Great!
posted by walldon | 8:32 AM
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So you are trying to imply that The Dear Leader of The Regime made a mistake?
Wait, am I asking about N. Korea or the U.S. gov't? It's so hard to tell them apart anymore. Do the N. Koreans outsource their torture of political prisoners?
Seriously, as Glenn Greenwald says,
Our credibility to act in the world -- both diplomatically and militarily -- has to be close to, if not at, an all-time low. . . .
Independent of all of that, we have plainly created an incentive system where every rational leader -- not crazed, Hitleresque, world-domination-seeking leader -- but every rational leader, would assess that it is in his country's interest to acquire a nuclear capability. Of the three "axis of evil" members, the one which was, by far, the weakest militarily was the one we invaded and shattered. But the strongest of the three, North Korea, we have proceeded very gingerly, issuing plainly empty threats and bellicose rhetoric but doing little else. The message we have sent is clear -- if you are a militarily weak nation, we will invade you or bomb you at will, but if you arm yourselves or acquire nuclear capability, we will not.
Strong on national security, that's our President.
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