To: The Great but Unacknowledged Wisdom of Doing Nothing

here is a sample of a article by arthur at the Once Upon A Time.... blog.
you can read the whole thing here...
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-but-unacknowledged-wisdom-of.html

"Here, then, is the simple policy solution to the "problem" of North Korea for the U.S. president: do nothing. It's also known as masterly inactivity. In due course, the nature of the North Korean regime will change, whether that change is peaceful or violent. It will probably change a lot more quickly if North Korea's economy has more wealth and wider links with the outside world, rather than being further isolated by demonization and sanctions on top of the constraints imposed by its own government. It will also help if Kim's attempts to seek nationalist legitimacy by claiming an external threat aren't regularly demonstrated true by Washington. In the meantime, North Korea isn't going to attack anybody so long as Kim knows that the result would be his own destruction."

That's strategy is really working out well isn't it?. Ask 3 generations of Koreans who have seen their relatives since the 50's how its going? Time to make China an ultimatum over Korea and stop this charade. How much money has been wasted by the US and Korea just treading water waiting for the Norks to "come around"? Same goes for the Chicoms, but at least market forces are having an effect there now.
Enough is enough, that was the lesson of Iraq, 15 years of being slapped in the face by those pissants and waitng for the UN to take action, phluhease! Enough is enough. Take some real action with sanctions and necessary means against NKorea and Iran or just cower and let them develop the bomb and the missiles to deliver the payload? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that equation..... Iran and NKorea have figured it out in case you didn't notice....

Folks, it's time for a dose of realism here. An atomic bomb isn't all that hard to build. If you can get your hands on the fissile material, any good physics major can work out the technical details & any decent machine shop can do the actual construction.

This is a genii that is not going to stay in the bottle. More and more countries are going to get nukes. It is not going to help things to have people running around in a panic. We need to get used to the idea & adapt our foreign policy to this reality.

We have been at war with North Korea since the 1950's. For Damned near 60 years we have had troops stationed on their borders. Does it really surprise anyone that they would want nukes? Hell, it surprises me that it took them this long to build them.

Outside of what is happening in DC, the communist threat is over. South Korea is the 4th largest economy in the world. They can take care of themselves. And if they can't, that's none of our business.

It is well past time that the United States brings our troops home (from all over the world) and minds it's own business.

Nothing we ever did excuses the mad mullahs from waging war against us, as if keeping them from falling to the communists didn’t save millions of Iranians in itself. Not only that, but the dp’s idea of justice and progress turned Iran over from a US friendly monarch that killed or imprisoned thousands of his people for political reasons, while trying(and doing a fair job) to modernize his country, to a US hostile religious oligarchy that kills and imprisons millions of it’s own people for political reasons. It’s not what I call progress when most of the country crumbles back into the 19th century, yet exports terrorism worldwide and builds nukes and ICBMs. I’ll take the GOP’s “unintended consequences” over the dp’s any day. Like with the Cold War, it’s pretty obvious who was right and who was wrong there, and it doesn’t change the fact that they are waging war against us today, or what we should do about it either.

It’s just as obvious that the Saudis, who we pledged to defend, invited us into their country to defend it against saddam, and obl should have found a better way to express his displeasure than killing Americans (and that goes for the mad mullahs too). It’s easy to see that allowing private citizens, or groups, to determine their national policy over their government (much less our policy), by threat or act of terrorism, is stupid, and only encourages terrorism. It’s just as stupid to think people like obl, who derive all of their power and fame from killing Americans and our allies, will ever lack a pretense to kill Americans and our allies.

The Japanese didn’t surrender until after the second bomb was dropped, and almost didn’t then. They wouldn’t surrender to stalin any more than to us until they were faced with annihilation without significant cost to us. Stalin tried to divide japan, his hacks showed up in Japan to arrange it, but MacArthur put his foot down and refused to allow Russian troops on the main islands in defiance of Truman.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely unnecessary. The evidence is overwhelming that the Japanese were already preparing to surrender. The only thing really holding them back was that they wanted to save face by keeping their emperor. We let them do this anyway, after the bombings.

The surrender was also preceded as much by the Soviet declaration of war as the atomic bombings.

Many of the military leaders of the time have said the bombing was unnecessary, including Nimitz and Eisenhower.

We have been at war with North Korea since 1950, with an armistice since 1953. Last Wednesday North Korea withdrew from the armistice and declared, "The Korean peninsula will go back to a state of war." We need nobody’s authority to fight a declared war against us, enforce an armistice, or a cease-fire agreement (like in Iraq).

The mad mullahs have waged open and covert war against the USA and Israel since they took over Iran (and invaded the US embassy, which is US soil). In the last two years most US casualties in Iraq, and some in Afghanistan were due to weapons supplied by Iran. When someone is killing your people you need no higher authority to kill them back until they meet your conditions for peace.

The only serious question is how many Americans are we going to let them kill before we fight back, and are we stupid enough to allow their nuke programs to continue?

Both will spread nukes and missile technology to anybody that hates us and can afford them. The nukes that hit us and Israel won't come from the PRK or Iran, they will come across our Southern border or off our coast, and across the Lebanese border in Israel's case.

The mess the mad mullah's make (I think the ROKs will clobber the norks, nukes or no, if they are dumb enough to try) if we take them down now, while they are still conventional, will make what we've seen so far in the GWOT look like a picnic (and will hit here), but it will be nothing like the mess, horror, and d*mnation of history and the survivors if we wait until the nukes start popping to fight back. Nobody's dumb enough to want war with a murderously fanatical government ruling three times the population of Iraq, but it's always been their choice, and they've chose war all along.

I won't apologize for my low tolerance for dead Americans before we start killing them back, mostly because that's the only surefire way to discourage killing Americans.

Apparently the chicoms have decided a nuclear Japan isn't a problem for them, none of the nukes will come their way and are content to sit back and watch. That's pretty risky for their nature, but it doesn't put it out of the question.

Alabamastan, I don't think that would have worked. If I remember correctly there were 3 or 4 days between Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Maybe it simply wasn't, but I would think that in 3 or 4 days they would have a feel for the destructive power...and yet they still did not stop. Infact I believe it took another 5 or 6 days after Nagasaki for them to finally surrender. They were a very determined enemy...

This is what happens when you turn your foreign policy decisions over to the UN. Contrast this with George Washington's view of handling foreign nations. You can read more about this at http://bringbackamerica.org/2009/05/31/weakening-the-country/

the same thing we did to russia. nothing

I thought the election of Barry Hussein would make the whole world love us? Just since OBozo was elected we've had Iran fire missiles, N Korea test nuclear bombs, Pakistan in disarray, etc. Maybe Hussein will solve everything later this week when he talks to the Muslim world.

In summary, under the evil George Bush, the world hated us. Now, under the dolt Social Worker, the world not only still hates us, but even worse, has ZERO respect and fear of us.

that this is all going on while the US and world economies are on the brink of collapse and Israel is threatening to attack Iran on a daily basis?

let's us start this at the same day we go to war against iran. of course we'll have to talk the people into it. but that's not hard to do. they'll believe anything we say. and we've got control of the tv stations, so they haven't got any news that we haven't got control over. and if anybody tells the truth out there, we'll call them conspiracy nutcases.
its so funny how the sheeple fall for our lies...