27 January 2005
Why not pound Pyongyang?
As I read this BBC article, in a moment of weakness, I wondered if there was some honest agenda behind the neo-con push for an Iranian Misadventure. I mean, why aren't the neo-cons all for pounding the recalcitrant North Koreans instead? I admit that I am.
North Korea has admitted possession of nuclear weapons, launched test missiles which passed over Japan, boasted their missiles can reach Australia, murdered thousands if not millions of their own people, sparked the Korean War, refused IAEA inspections, assassinated South Korean government officials, bombed South Korean airliners, maintained Nazi-like concentration camps, became a foundation member of Dubya's Axis of Evil etc.
What more can Pyongyang do to merit a neo-con war and why hasn't neo-con freedom and liberty descended onto that blighted dark corner of the world?
Could it be that Dubya is concerned what China would think were he to run a little war on their door step? Unlikely. Since when did the neo-cons care about what anyone else thinks? Okay, could it be that Japan has advised restraint and the neo-cons are listening? Again, unlikely. After all, they ignored Japan's calls for restraint before the Iraqi Misadventure.
So as I slowly drifted out of my moment of weakness, hopelessly searching for an honest agenda, it hit me.
IT'S THE OIL, STUPID!
Of course, that bleak country called North Korea has no oil for which US blood and treasure is worth spilling, about whom incredible lies are worth spinning, against whom "close" Allies are worth protecting, and to whom neo-con style of freedom and liberty are worth bringing. Silly me. Doh!
North Korea has admitted possession of nuclear weapons, launched test missiles which passed over Japan, boasted their missiles can reach Australia, murdered thousands if not millions of their own people, sparked the Korean War, refused IAEA inspections, assassinated South Korean government officials, bombed South Korean airliners, maintained Nazi-like concentration camps, became a foundation member of Dubya's Axis of Evil etc.
What more can Pyongyang do to merit a neo-con war and why hasn't neo-con freedom and liberty descended onto that blighted dark corner of the world?
Could it be that Dubya is concerned what China would think were he to run a little war on their door step? Unlikely. Since when did the neo-cons care about what anyone else thinks? Okay, could it be that Japan has advised restraint and the neo-cons are listening? Again, unlikely. After all, they ignored Japan's calls for restraint before the Iraqi Misadventure.
So as I slowly drifted out of my moment of weakness, hopelessly searching for an honest agenda, it hit me.
IT'S THE OIL, STUPID!
Of course, that bleak country called North Korea has no oil for which US blood and treasure is worth spilling, about whom incredible lies are worth spinning, against whom "close" Allies are worth protecting, and to whom neo-con style of freedom and liberty are worth bringing. Silly me. Doh!
