From the “You did, dummy!” file
ABC’s Sawyer: Does U.S. Have Right to Stop a Nuclear North Korea?
First, Katie Couric wondered who made America the “boss” of the world, now ABC’s Diane Sawyer wants to know if “the U.S. can tell other countries whether they can have nuclear weapons or not?” Sawyer asked the question on Monday’s Good Morning America during an interview with Donald Gregg, former ambassador to South Korea under the first President Bush, about North Korea’s apparent test of a nuclear weapon. Sawyer queried Gregg about whether America has the right to criticize such testing: “I want to ask you a question I’ve heard being asked this morning, which is, really, how can the U.S. tell other countries whether they can have nuclear weapons or not, when the U.S. has them and seven other countries as well? Does this mean that the genie is officially out of the bottle and that the U.S. is no longer in a position to dictate who gets nuclear weapons?”
Cold War ends. Saddam Invades Kuwait. World screams “Do something, America”. America does something.
It has been the same since then.
Now, because they feel comfortable enough to in this supposedly fascist and authoritarian politcal climate, the media asks really stupid questions.
Basically: Clinton as World Policeman = Good. Bush as World Policeman = Bad.
Nevermind that it was Clinton the World Policeman who was only giving the bad guys verbal warnings that led to our current state of affairs.
Stopping nuclear proliferation is a good idea, but unsupportable either in reality or legality.
There’s a parallel here, and I challenge readers to bust it: it’s a R2KBA.
Note that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms STOPS at the point of use of those arms.
Here’s the proper solution: M.A.D., Mutually Assured Destruction. We allow all these tinhorns to arm themselves, and we realize that, at some point, one of them will nuke us, or an ally. We have a large nuclear arsenal, and when we or an ally are nuked by a pipsqueak outfit like the Norks, we politely advise neighbors and down wind folk to seek fallout shelter, and we flatten the entire country.
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!
One time should do it.
And we name our allies, and offer them the shield of our nuclear umbrella, so if the whacko dictator with nukes wants to waste a city in say, Great Britain, we nuke his country in favor of the Queen.
We have the power, the missiles and nukes and the stealth bombers. We made this threat believeable for almost 50 years for the USSR, which actually had some rational people leading it (politically FUBAR, but they were rational). We can make it believeable for any tinhorns as well.
We will probably have to exercise the threat at least once, but the world can do without a few million Norks or moo-slimes.
Once the threat is exercised/confirmed, it will never be challenged again.
Just as the guns in my safe are not a threat because I don’t use them in any nmanner that society deems inappropriate, any nukes that another country has that remain in their Weapons Storage Areas are not a threat, either.