North Korea Gets Tough
North Korea is on a mission to prove — with serious consequences — that America has the wrong President. In a recent statement, a North Korea spokesman said:
“Pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the United States.”
That’s as clear a threat of war as I could imagine, and there can be little doubt that it’s a fire stoked by President Bush’s utter lack of diplomacy skills. The tough-talking John Wayne wannabe and his Don’t mess with Texas attitude could bully a couple of mid-eastern countries with no serious weapons, but it doesn’t work when the other guy has nukes.
Well, the tough talking Texan routine is the only thing Bush knows, so with his political capital all spent, the only way he can get things done is to go back to the old playbook and call some country a threat to our security. It’s not actually about North Korea or Iran being a threat to us, it’s just a matter of Bush needing more excuses to keep the war machine running so he and his buddies can get rich spending the next generation’s tax money.
The problem now is that his tough-talking rhetoric called North Korea — among other things — a serious nuclear proliferation challenge. The North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman rebuts:
“In a word, it is a robbery-like declaration of war. Through this document, the Bush administration declared to the world that it is a group of war fanatics.”
And he’s right. And if this thing continues to escalate, it could have grave consequences.
