Le Sabot Post-Moderne: Would You Buy a Used Nuke From This Man?

février 12, 2005

Would You Buy a Used Nuke From This Man?

Al Qaeda would. . . So it's a little scary that Lil' Kim has nukes now.

President Bush is holding firm for 6-way regional talks rather than a Clintonian bilateral shakedown. I like the Bush team's clear-eyed assessment:

"When the U.S. and North Korea had direct negotiations to eliminate North Korea's nuclear weapons program, we got a deal, and then North Korea started cheating on the deal, very quickly within a couple of years," said Mr. Boucher.

It's not clear that anything will work. But at least we won't be suckered into helping keep this vicious regime on life-support.

On a side note, the real nature of the Chinese government can be seen in all of this. They supply North Korea with her energy. They could shut down the place anytime they chose. Instead, they're tacitly siding with a rogue regime that sells weapons to terrorist-supporting countries and starves its own people by the hundreds of thousands.

Posted by Discoshaman at février 12, 2005 02:00 AM | TrackBack

Instead, they're tacitly siding with a rogue regime that sells weapons to terrorist-supporting countries and starves its own people by the hundreds of thousands.

Isn't that China? Lets see:

Sells weapons to terrorist-supporting countries? Check!

Starves it's own people? Check!

Communist nation? Check!

Is it any wonder what side China is on?

Posted by: Jeremy at février 12, 2005 05:15 AM

Another note about the 6-way talks. If North Korea screws us over again, none of them will care. And our country is too dovish as a whole to invade them for that. When you get the regional powers in on it, however, I doubt some of them will be as kind when it comes to being screwed over.

Posted by: Robert Mayer at février 12, 2005 11:38 PM

I just hope that we don't take any action there before the Film Actors Guild holds its world peace conference in P'yongyang. Patience, just wait until they all gather.

America, F#ck Yeah!

Posted by: Greg at février 13, 2005 04:50 AM

"And our country is too dovish as a whole to invade them for that."

Or, one can only hope to God, too sensible. When we're barely holding down the front in Iraq, and the majority of our troops are either in or have been in Iraq and are facing extended tours of duty, it'd be sheer idiocy to invade an actual nuclear power with an actual military in a completely different sector of the world.

Posted by: Pieter Friedrich at février 13, 2005 08:16 AM