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North Korea has destructive aspirations
Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 2:04 a.m.
The latest round of nuclear and missile tests conducted by North Korea shows just how helpless the free world is to respond to this renegade nation. North Korea poses an even greater threat to the free world than Iran does. North Korea’s retaliatory capacity and the backing of Communist China create a sustainable threat to the peace and freedom of the entire world.
While President Barack Obama had some strong words for North Korea, as did the United Nations, these are merely verbal lashings that are incapable of forcing any fruitful reactions from this renegade nation. The ability of the free world to bring about any meaningful change in the direction of North Korea’s nuclear program, and the immense threat to the security of the world, is nil.
These recent developments in North Korea should remind all of us of the increasingly dangerous world in which we live today. North Korea sells its military technology and materials to terrorists and supporters of terrorism. The U.S. is a principal target of these terrorists and also the target of these weapons of mass destruction being developed by North Korea.
At what time do we reach the tipping point in our tolerance to the behavior of North Korea? And when we reach this tipping point, just what do we do? As a nation are we prepared for the preemptive actions that may be required to prevent the future destruction of our nation?
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HEY BOB > We will never see any preemptive actions by President Obama on anything! He dos not act like the leader of a superpower nation knowbody is afraid of him we are a target just because of that.
How many South Korean lives are you armchair generals willing to see destroyed because you want to kill brown people? Go join the military and, I hope, get your a** shot off so the rest of us can live without you.
POWERPLAY: Let,s invade those bastards. They,ve only got 1.2 million militery cumpared to our 3 million. We could kick there asses and anyway we're only lusing a few a month in Iraq now so who cares if those numbers go up. It's all volenteer right. No loss for you and me!
Also, I heard it was Obama that cauzed Katrina and not Bush after all.
Mr. Jack -- your reference to North Korea being backed by "Communist China" seems to not be willing to put the blame where it belongs: favored trade nation China.
You're all forgetting North Korea is a sovereign nation, just like the U.S. is. They have as much right to develop a nuclear program as anyone else does. The rest is just propaganda.
Kool-aid drinking liberals--what is your solution??Speak up--I am sure that the Obama administration would like some ideas right now.
North Korean posturing resulting from OUR electing a weak President. But he gives good speeches and plays basketball.
twinsdad -- North Korea has been a problem for a very long time before Obama took office.
As a nation I believe we need to get over being the world's police. We've got enough problems right here without looking for trouble internationally. This nation's founders were against having a standing army, and that seems to be justifying itself today.
OK, OK, a link to start ... http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Mags/Founder...
Especially the quote from the Federalist Paper 41.
Mr. Jack makes at least one good point. It's unlikely that N. Korea would launch anything but words at the U.S. However they are all too happy to give/sell technology and materials to terrorists who are just waiting to attack us.
The president has a dismal record - in just four months - on fiscal and domestic policies and actions. The threat we face from terrorism is too important for him to maintain his pride-driven approach.
There are people out there - Dick Cheney for one - who have no axe to grind but have a lot of knowledge and information that could help the president. He needs to put aside the self-righteous attitude and accept all the help he can get on this matter.
Not a problem I would like to have to solve. Mentaly Ill is just nuts enough to use what he has on anyone who invades or attacks North Korea. They have no missile that will reach us yet (maybe) but they do have cargo shipping and could launch from them. The United States has never been on the receiving end of a nuclear weapon and I hope we never are.
"The United States has never been on the receiving end of a nuclear weapon..."
castle -- no, the USA is just the ONLY country to have EVER used a nuclear weapon in anger. And that was against civilian targets -- the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Then there's the fire bombing of Dresden in WWII. American bombers destroyed a peaceful German city with no military or strategic value whatsoever. (rest in peace, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and thanx for "Slaughterhouse Five"!)
KillerB - Dropping nukes on Japan kept WWll from becoming a prolonged war with no real end in sight like Iraq has become. Our problem now is that we want to fight "friendly wars" and no longer have the guts to do what is necessary to eliminate those who wage terrorism. Apparently North Korea and Iran know this too.
"HEY BOB > We will never see any preemptive actions by President Obama on anything! He dos not act like the leader of a superpower nation knowbody is afraid of him we are a target just because of that."
This kind of nonsense is typical of the knee-jerk responses I get to read on my computer this fine morning.
Bush's preemptive attack on Iraq may as well have been fought against Mexico for all the relevance Iraq had in relation to 9/11. So Mr. Bush set back the foreign policy standards of my country by about two hundred years. Iraq was a sovereign nation like us and Canada and England. But the wisdom of Mr. Bush held the day, and the blood of many thousands of Americans dries in the desert of the mideast.
Your run-ons do not deserve a reply. If you can't write English any better than that, what kind of thought process could possibly be involved? Learn to write in the basic unit of the language, the sentence. If you can't handle the basic unit, why do you even try to broadcast your stupidity?
labdaddy -- I am well aware of the reasoning behind shy Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the Japanese military was perceived as fanatical and a land invasion would have been far too costly in time and lives). No disagreement with you on your post. The point being made to castle was American's war hypocrisy -- those two super bombs were purposely dropped on civilians. Like Dresden.
KillerB
Very true we are the only nation to use these weapons. I am not sure if we or the USSR intended to ever use them after WWII since both nations knew the result; but they sure employed a lot of voters making them (at least we did). The actual threat of these is in what people perceive of them. Radiation, cancers, mutation are what strike fear. My post was more to the problem of dealing with a leader with little restraint than why the US can have and has used these weapons and we don't want others to have them (which is kind of apparent if you think of why we would not want everyone having one).
castle -- Understood, and no disagreement from me.
Whether we want anyone else to have this weapons technology is irrelevant when it comes to a sovereign nation, though. That was my point.