This guy is North of bat shit crazy.<\/p>\n
A lot of talk, hand wringing and gnashing of teeth of late\u2014all because of the little fat man-child in charge of North Korea.\u00a0 He fires missiles towards his neighbors with impunity. \u00a0He sets off nuclear bombs with abandon.\u00a0 And he blusters about our national impending doom.\u00a0 He claims he can fire off a nuclear-tipped missile at our soil.\u00a0 Can he?\u00a0 Will he?<\/p>\n
A year or two ago, had he the capability, I believe he definitely would have. \u00a0Obama was the guy he could have tested and made blink.\u00a0 I believe had he done so, B Hussein would have tried to convince the nation that we could absorb the damage, swallow the loss of say, Seattle, and the hundreds of thousands of casualties in dead and wounded.\u00a0 I truly do not believe B. Hussein would have retaliated.\u00a0 He would have turned the Muslim cheek.<\/p>\n
Now though, with Trump in office, it is a whole new situation.\u00a0 Trump isn\u2019t one to simply absorb body blows or body bags.\u00a0 Kimmy, however, has heard years and years of lip service and tough talk to the contrary.\u00a0 It is only natural for the fat bully to doubt that his favorite punching bag on the playground has either the willingness or resolve to defend or fight back.<\/p>\n
So, how did we get here?\u00a0 How did we come to this desolate place of fighting a catastrophic war, or accepting a lunatic with nuclear arms and trusting that he won\u2019t use them?\u00a0 We\u2019ll have to go back over 50 years and start placing blame at the politicians of old\u2014both reviled, and revered.<\/p>\n
1956. The Soviets begin training North Korean scientists, giving them the \u201cbasic knowledge\u201d to initiate a nuclear program.<\/p>\n
So, if we knew that then, why did not Ike (President) bomb them or threaten the Russians to stop?\u00a0 Tricky Dick Nixon was VP then, and he wasn\u2019t exactly a peace dove.\u00a0 Charles Wilson was the SecDef.\u00a0 Allen Dulles was CIA Director.\u00a0 This is all 3 years or so after the Korean War stopped.\u00a0 I say stopped, as basically both sides just stopped shooting.\u00a0 The undeclared war was never brokered to a peace treaty, rather just an armistice.\u00a0 We are still technically at war with the DPRK.\u00a0 Could war weariness in the aftermath of WWII have spurred on this yellow stripe of spineless back down?<\/p>\n
1962. Their primary nuclear facility\u2014Yongbyon opens.<\/p>\n
Kennedy is President.\u00a0 Johnson another slobbering war monger was VP.\u00a0 John McCone was the CIA Director, and Robert McNamara, the statistician, and synonym for dereliction of duty was the SecDef.<\/p>\n
1981. The Israelis bomb and destroy the nuclear reactor at Osirak, Iraq.<\/p>\n
Using then current date F16 fighters, the Israelis fly through enemy airspace and successfully eliminate the first real non-conventional existential threat to their very existence.\u00a0 Reagan was President and Bush 41 was the VP.\u00a0 Admiral Stansfield Turner was the CIA Director and Casper Weinberger was the SecDef.\u00a0 If ever a blue print was laid out for us, this was it.\u00a0 They showed us it could be done (unilateral and decisive action) and they did it.\u00a0 Bear in mind that nuclear reactors do not go up quickly and that ole\u2019 H.W. Bush was the CIA Director from 1976-1977, probably when the plans were set and construction begun.<\/p>\n
1989. Satellite imagery confirms that the DPRK is in the early stages of building a nuclear bomb even though additional construction at Yongbyon continued since its inception.<\/p>\n
Reagan and George H.W. Bush were President in this time, so both Bush and Dan Quayle were VP.\u00a0 William Webster was the CIA Director and Darth Vadar himself, Dick Cheney was the SecDef, as well as Frank Carlucci.<\/p>\n
1994. The Agreed Framework days.<\/p>\n
It was an agreement between the US and the DPRK, born of the Clinton Administration.\u00a0 The design was to freeze their nuclear ambitions and refinements in exchange for fuel oil, economic concessions (read: bribes), and well as a normalization of relations between the two nations.\u00a0 Also part of the deal and the crown jewel for the DPRK, was to be bilateral talks between just the US and DPRK to formally end the Korean War.\u00a0 The DPRK has long sought just such an agreement so that they could then propagandize the war as between just the US and the DPRK rather than the DPRK and the United Nations and its coalition.\u00a0 And since it would be a treaty, they could claim to have fought the US to a draw.\u00a0 The DPRK was secretly enriching uranium while \u201cfollowing\u201d the rules of the Agreed Framework as this was not specifically forbidden.<\/p>\n
This puts Slick Willy, Algore, CIA Director James Woosley, SecDef Les Aspin (famous also for denying tanks and Specter gunships to the US forces in Somalia leading to the horrific losses at Mogadishu and \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d) directly into the mix of complicity.\u00a0 It bears mentioning that SecState Madeline Albright was involved as well.\u00a0 She was once reported as seen trotting along after Kim Jong-Il begging him to return to talks after he walked out.<\/p>\n
The DPRK famously followed and violated the Agreed Framework, repeatedly announcing their intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty unless the US provided more and more concessions.\u00a0 The DPRK finally and formally withdrew from the NPT in 2003\u2026the Dubya Bush years.<\/p>\n
2002. In October, Assistant SecState James Kelly tells DPRK that he has evidence of their uranium enrichment which is against the spirit (but not the letter since we are bad deal negotiators) of the Agreed Framework pact.<\/p>\n
14 November. Bush threatens to halt oil shipments if the DPRK continues their nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n
4 December. DPRK rejects calls to open Yongbyon for inspections.<\/p>\n
12 December. DPRK states that the oil shipment cessation from the US leaves them no option but to restart their nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n
22 December.\u00a0 Following the IAEA inspectors not removing cameras and other inspection equipment, the DPRK does it for them.<\/p>\n
2003. 10 January. DPRK withdraws from the NPT. SecState Colin Powell tattles to the toothless UN Security Counsel.<\/p>\n
28 January.\u00a0 Bush warns DPRK that \u201cthe world will not be blackmailed.\u201d<\/p>\n
February and March.\u00a0 DPRK fire two missiles near the land mass of Japan.<\/p>\n
9 April.\u00a0 The UN Security Counsel fails to condemn DPRK from withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.<\/p>\n
24 April.\u00a0 In a meeting with Chinese officials it is stated that DPRK has nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
12 May.\u00a0 DPRK scraps a 1992 agreement with South Korea committing to keep the Korean Peninsula free from nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
9 December.\u00a0 DPRK agrees to \u201cfreeze\u201d (not dismantle) its nuclear program in exchange for a list of concessions from the US.\u00a0 If the US does not agree (comply\/capitulate) the DPRK states it will not enter into any future talks.\u00a0 US says no to freezing, DPRK must dismantle.<\/p>\n
27 December.\u00a0 Reversing itself, the DPRK enters into 6-party talks (DPRK, Russia, China, US, Japan, South Korea)<\/p>\n
2004. In October 2004, former SecState Albright confessions that she knew the DPRK was cheating on the Agreed Framework by enriching uranium.<\/p>\n
2005. 5 October. A US envoy directly threatens the DPRK, saying, \u201cThey can have a future, or these nuclear weapons, but not both.\u201d<\/p>\n
6 October.\u00a0 DPRK detonates its first nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n
Again, George W. Bush is the President, Dick Cheney is the VP.\u00a0 The SecDef is Donald Rumsfeld, and the CIA Director is Michael Hayden.\u00a0 None of these gentlemen are slouches.\u00a0 (Despite the now historically apparent lack of spine.)\u00a0 The world is a witness to a psychopath joining the nuclear club with barely so much as sputtering objections at the United Nations.\u00a0 No military strikes were conducted.\u00a0 No naval embargoes were sailed.\u00a0 No serious military reinforcements planned or enacted.\u00a0 Were they distracted by their invasion of Iraq?\u00a0 Did they take their eye off this particular ball?\u00a0 Or were they merely incompetent boobs woefully inept and not up to the task?\u00a0 The next year, the Israelis again were there to show the world the correct answer to those questions.<\/p>\n
2007. The Israelis bomb and destroy a nuclear reactor in the desert of Syria.<\/p>\n
Using a team of Special Forces on the ground to laser designate the target, a cluster of F15 and F16 aircraft and a flying ELINT (electronic intelligence) aircraft, the Israelis crossed into Syrian airspace, spoofed their anti-aircraft system, and destroyed a reactor that the US had known about for years since shortly after construction had begun.\u00a0 The SF team even brought back pictures and soil samples to verify destruction and radioactivity of the target debris.<\/p>\n
The Israelis had evidence suggesting the Iran had added financing to the project; as much as 2 billion dollars.\u00a0 Evidence suggested that as many as ten DPRK soldiers were killed in the raid.\u00a0 The US declined to conduct the attack or even provide support to the Israelis fearing world and Arab reactions.\u00a0 The Israelis believed that so long as they did not overtly brag about their actions, Syrian President Assad would not retaliate.\u00a0 The Israelis kept quiet and Syria quietly buried the site.<\/p>\n
It is later revealed that the design and technology, even layout of the reactor facility in Syria matched almost exactly to that of the Yongbyon reactor in DPRK.<\/p>\n
I could go on for pages more detailing the overt and blatant actions of the DPRK and the subsequent meek and useless reaction from the world and the US.\u00a0 The simple fact remains.\u00a0 They now have nuclear bombs.\u00a0 They have proven capable of missile technology that can reach all of our Pacific region bases, if not portions of the continental US.\u00a0 They just recently detonated their most powerful device giving credence to their assertions that they have graduated from fission bombs (atomic) to fusion bombs (H-bombs.)\u00a0 It really is just a matter of time before they develop the expertise to marry an H-bomb warhead to a missile with enough range and sophistication to survive re-entry, such that they can deliver untold destruction to our soil.<\/p>\n
There is an old saying something about, \u201cTis\u2019 better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.\u201d\u00a0 That is something the Israelis understand.\u00a0 They do not fear political fallout or sour poll results.\u00a0 They already know that probably 80 percent of the world already hates them, and that the UN will condemn them with every resolution brought forward to do so.\u00a0 Israel does not care about perceptions or resolutions from spineless bigots.\u00a0 The Israelis will preemptively attack to protect themselves. They know they if they were to choose life on their knees, the blade for their neck swiftly follows.<\/p>\n
Quite the opposite, the US does care about world opinion and perception.\u00a0 We want to be liked and don\u2019t understand it when others show that they do not.\u00a0 We\u2019d rather people have favorable opinions of us that to be feared, even respected.\u00a0 We turn the other cheek to insults and attacks so often as to make even our enemies dizzy.\u00a0 We do not take strategic unilateral actions like the Israelis do.\u00a0 We fire off missiles now and again, but those are limited in both scope and results.\u00a0 We burn enormous amounts of energy trying to build multinational coalitions so as to make others feel equal to us and included in world decisions.\u00a0 When all along, at the core of things, the world wants strong American leadership since they can\u2019t do it themselves.<\/p>\n
Our options:<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t look at me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have the answers either.\u00a0 Our window for acting without real risk of repercussions ended decades ago.\u00a0 I just repacked my bug-out bag for when Kimmy sets off an EMP over us and knocks us back to the 1800\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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