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Re: Where is Our Social Conscience?
by Arthegarn on Dec 16, 2002 - 01:29 AM
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The USA is not prone to attacking anything outside its borders. It never has, and I guess it will never be. It took it Pearl Harbour to enter WWII, and after the coffin parade of its last major outside engagement, and the extreme unpopularity of sending USA troops to die in "some god forsaken corner of the world" makes a total war extremely unlikely.
I don't think there is sucha think as an Axis of Evil, but I do think North Korea is China's B-box. Whenever China wants to sell anything to anyone that would provoke a serious commercial or diplomatic response, it does so through North Korea. So, if China wanted to sell some Scuds to some regime in the Arabian zone that needs badly to arm itself with long range SSM, the best way would be if these misslies appeared to have been dispatched in an unidentified, flagless ship from and by Korea, destined to some third country which has no good relationships with the US anyway, where they could get conveniently lost... All that business is a slap on the US's part to China and North Korea, saying "when you think you are being awfully clever by hiding your deals with the Iraki under cement, we are watching you do so from mid orbit, little ones"
Its not as hard as saying that North Korea is an evil regime... but I believe it deserves some watching. Anyway the Usa has already found an excuse to cut off its unending supply of heavy fuel to that country, which will unevitably force it to reopen its nuclear plants as they will run out of fuel for their thermic ones. That will reopening of nuclear plants will give USA, or rather USA's government, its excuse (internal excuse, escuse in the eyes of the American public who are against sending their people to die in distant lands EXCEPT when there is a nuclear threat involved) to press as strong as wished to change that regime.
In my humble opinion, that is
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