Korea/wmd
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:42 pm
Well, despite the liberal damnation of Bush's handling of North Korea and Madeline Albright's "brain dead" stament to the effect that:
'We didn't have any tests of Nuclear weapons during the Clinton Presidency, therefore our strategy of 'constructive engagement" worked"
The US was played like a fish and Pyongyang never had any intention of deviating from their goal of becoming a Nuclear Power.
The problem is; North Korea is like a boy who has found and picked up a large Pistol like those of his neighbors.
He has been sitting and trying to figure out how to make the biggest BANG possible with just the 5 rounds in the weapon for a very long time.
Now he has cleaned the rust of the weapon and it will function.
That's why Mature Folk are obliged to keep such weapons away from proven immature egomaniacs. has not the South prospered on its own? Did not a North Korean defector state "you in the South should reunite the country by force"?
The "KoreanWar" has never ended.
Korea, once a united nation, has suffered a in total suppression of indigenous rule and thought thru the Imperialism of Japan, and the injection of Stalinism by force into North Korea . Only in the South has Korea been allowed to reclaim a Korean heritage.
Japan should not have engaged in Empire building in the area.
Being a slave can seriously affect one's view of the world in later years..
The Soviets should never have created and backed this regime.
The Chinese could have let the UN occupy the Peninsula and swallowed their newborn pride in their military clout in their "sphere of influence"..
As a parallel: WE created the monster Saddam. We are paying a heavy price to remedy that mistep.
. As an aside, the problems in Iraq, Iran and their neighbors go well back into the time of the Creation and Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
But that's another story.
The Creation and Dissolution of Empires have bloody consequences.
Who then gets to quiet the crazed little kid with his new bangtoy in the East..
How about Japan, China and Russia?
They literally created this insane situation, and now they should sit down together and figure out how to calm the little madman, or forcibly put him in detention.
The Korean people have a deep history and great love of country that has been mostly erased by the continuing exploitation of the peninsula by foreign powers and foriegn ways of thinking since 1910..
For once, the US cannot be blamed for the situation.
We can only be blamed for insufficiently resisting the expansion of Stalinist influence and thought, which we know now is a shallow and deadly way of thinking and rule into the Peninsula.
It is my shallow thought that the Korean people were doing well on their own before their country was crushed and divided.
Unforttunately Korea should have been left united when we had the power to make it so, but we were justifiably tired of War
But, as noted in Brady's Powerful Little Novel "The Marines Of Autumn" US veterans no interest in being dragged back into warfare, let alone a bloody little conflict in Korea.
The veterans of WWII had seen enough war--and, in some significant part , it was these veterans who were tapped to go out again and fight in Korea, along with a rag tag bunch of untried units and draftees.
I cannot unmuddle the bloody recent history of the land of the 38th Parallel, but I doubt I will change my mind as to who should engage in finding a solution, which means: ANYTHING but the US alone handling the matter..
'We didn't have any tests of Nuclear weapons during the Clinton Presidency, therefore our strategy of 'constructive engagement" worked"
The US was played like a fish and Pyongyang never had any intention of deviating from their goal of becoming a Nuclear Power.
The problem is; North Korea is like a boy who has found and picked up a large Pistol like those of his neighbors.
He has been sitting and trying to figure out how to make the biggest BANG possible with just the 5 rounds in the weapon for a very long time.
Now he has cleaned the rust of the weapon and it will function.
That's why Mature Folk are obliged to keep such weapons away from proven immature egomaniacs. has not the South prospered on its own? Did not a North Korean defector state "you in the South should reunite the country by force"?
The "KoreanWar" has never ended.
Korea, once a united nation, has suffered a in total suppression of indigenous rule and thought thru the Imperialism of Japan, and the injection of Stalinism by force into North Korea . Only in the South has Korea been allowed to reclaim a Korean heritage.
Japan should not have engaged in Empire building in the area.
Being a slave can seriously affect one's view of the world in later years..
The Soviets should never have created and backed this regime.
The Chinese could have let the UN occupy the Peninsula and swallowed their newborn pride in their military clout in their "sphere of influence"..
As a parallel: WE created the monster Saddam. We are paying a heavy price to remedy that mistep.
. As an aside, the problems in Iraq, Iran and their neighbors go well back into the time of the Creation and Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
But that's another story.
The Creation and Dissolution of Empires have bloody consequences.
Who then gets to quiet the crazed little kid with his new bangtoy in the East..
How about Japan, China and Russia?
They literally created this insane situation, and now they should sit down together and figure out how to calm the little madman, or forcibly put him in detention.
The Korean people have a deep history and great love of country that has been mostly erased by the continuing exploitation of the peninsula by foreign powers and foriegn ways of thinking since 1910..
For once, the US cannot be blamed for the situation.
We can only be blamed for insufficiently resisting the expansion of Stalinist influence and thought, which we know now is a shallow and deadly way of thinking and rule into the Peninsula.
It is my shallow thought that the Korean people were doing well on their own before their country was crushed and divided.
Unforttunately Korea should have been left united when we had the power to make it so, but we were justifiably tired of War
But, as noted in Brady's Powerful Little Novel "The Marines Of Autumn" US veterans no interest in being dragged back into warfare, let alone a bloody little conflict in Korea.
The veterans of WWII had seen enough war--and, in some significant part , it was these veterans who were tapped to go out again and fight in Korea, along with a rag tag bunch of untried units and draftees.
I cannot unmuddle the bloody recent history of the land of the 38th Parallel, but I doubt I will change my mind as to who should engage in finding a solution, which means: ANYTHING but the US alone handling the matter..