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North Korea
Well, the third part of the "Axis of Evil", North Korea, exploded a nuclear weapon yesterday(assuming they're not lying just to test world reaction), and they may have exploded one today.
This despite all the bluster by Boy George and company that we would not "live with it," and other threats of dire consequences. It capped an all-around great week for the Axis.
We've reversed roles with North Korea. They used to bluster and we used to shake our heads at what idiots they were. Now Bush blusters and Kim Jong-il nods his head knowingly.
I never thought that telling a paranoid regime that you were out to get them (as Bush implied in his now infamous State of the Union speech) was a good idea.
IRAN
Iran continues its uranium enrichment program, blithely ignoring other useless and silly threats from a U.S. "superpower", with a military emasculated by Bush's Iraq misadventure. Combine that with a post-modern "War is no longer an option" western Europe and you have the perfect recipe for inaction.
Bush continues to look like Mr. Bluster from the old "Howdy-Doody" show. What an embarassment he continues to be due to the gap between the strident rhetoric and the inablity to act.
IRAQ
The U.S. has no ability to respond to either North Korea or Iran because of the mess Bush made in Iraq, alienating all our allies along the way. Daddy has finally sent in James Baker (rather than Henry Kissinger) to advise little George on how to cut and run out of the occupation of that part of the Axis (without looking like it). Old George doesn't want his son to have to send in helicopters to airlift our embassy employees out of the Green Zone.
UN
Russia and China will make sure that Boy George and "I am the Walrus", John Bolton, who have shown nothing but contempt for the U.N., are unable to get any tough sanctions out of the Security Council against North Korea or Iran.
China considers North Korea to be within its sphere of influence. Putin's "soul" into which stared has turned out to be more pragmatic and enigmatic than he thought.
SUMMARY
The greatest danger in all of this? That Japan will rearm. It could probably go nuclear within a week. China, having suffered terribly by Japan's WW II invasion, would go berserk. And the people we nuked, would have nukes.
Now that would be a real WMD crisis. A nuclear arms race in Asia.
Well, the third part of the "Axis of Evil", North Korea, exploded a nuclear weapon yesterday(assuming they're not lying just to test world reaction), and they may have exploded one today.
This despite all the bluster by Boy George and company that we would not "live with it," and other threats of dire consequences. It capped an all-around great week for the Axis.
We've reversed roles with North Korea. They used to bluster and we used to shake our heads at what idiots they were. Now Bush blusters and Kim Jong-il nods his head knowingly.
I never thought that telling a paranoid regime that you were out to get them (as Bush implied in his now infamous State of the Union speech) was a good idea.
IRAN
Iran continues its uranium enrichment program, blithely ignoring other useless and silly threats from a U.S. "superpower", with a military emasculated by Bush's Iraq misadventure. Combine that with a post-modern "War is no longer an option" western Europe and you have the perfect recipe for inaction.
Bush continues to look like Mr. Bluster from the old "Howdy-Doody" show. What an embarassment he continues to be due to the gap between the strident rhetoric and the inablity to act.
IRAQ
The U.S. has no ability to respond to either North Korea or Iran because of the mess Bush made in Iraq, alienating all our allies along the way. Daddy has finally sent in James Baker (rather than Henry Kissinger) to advise little George on how to cut and run out of the occupation of that part of the Axis (without looking like it). Old George doesn't want his son to have to send in helicopters to airlift our embassy employees out of the Green Zone.
UN
Russia and China will make sure that Boy George and "I am the Walrus", John Bolton, who have shown nothing but contempt for the U.N., are unable to get any tough sanctions out of the Security Council against North Korea or Iran.
China considers North Korea to be within its sphere of influence. Putin's "soul" into which stared has turned out to be more pragmatic and enigmatic than he thought.
SUMMARY
The greatest danger in all of this? That Japan will rearm. It could probably go nuclear within a week. China, having suffered terribly by Japan's WW II invasion, would go berserk. And the people we nuked, would have nukes.
Now that would be a real WMD crisis. A nuclear arms race in Asia.
Labels: Axis of Evil, Bush Foreign Policy, China, Japan, UN
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