Proof

Vague title, I know. However, this IS proof. You can decide what it proves, but it is proof nonetheless.


N. Korea recently revealed that it is about to test a long range missile. This means that from a stationary silo they could deliver a nuclear payload to the U.S. west coast. (Reports vary, but it would seem that the missile could reach at least all of India, almost all of Russia, almost to the Mediterranean, and all of Alaska.) Let’s be clear: we know N. Korea has nukes, we know they have short and medium range, and we know they are working on long range. We know all of this because each of these statements has been delivered by them to try and get us to pay attention to them. In other words, they have provided all sorts of evidence for us every step of the way.

I have no intention of rehashing the very tired Iraq stuff. Yet sometimes Mr Cheney forces your hand. Today he responded to calls by William Perry (former secretary of defense) and Ashton Carter (former assistant secretary of defense) regarding the long range missile testing, who insist that we must make a preemptive strike against the N. Korean research facilities before they test the missile. Mr Cheney: it is “fair to say that the North Korean missile capabilities are fairly rudimentary.” The US, he said is dealing with the issues “in a proper fashion.”

The loudest and most snide proponent of the imminent necessity to invade Iraq on the unconfirmed assumption of weapons that had no possibility of reaching American soil is now dismissive about the need to make targeted strikes against N. Korea on the confirmed information that they do have weapons and are finishing work on one that can reach American soil.

Lots of people have complained that our foreign policy is terribly hypocritical. Actually, it appears to be quite consistent and simple: Get a nuke as fast as you can, and we will leave you alone (N. Korea). Or, we might even become best friends (Israel, India, Pakistan). Act now while all our military interests are tied up, and we may even offer you some concessions for your cleverness (Iran). For as long as you don’t pose a threat to us and your country isn’t primarily filled with black people (nobody cares about them), we just might attack you (Iraq).

Poor paranoid Gaddafi looks like the big loser here.



-W.