Rice Asserts US Won’t Attack North Korea

That’s like saying, Dick Cheney says he won’t do tag-team wrestling. Of course the US won’t attack or invade North Korea. We can’t. We’re too weak. Our resources have been squandered in Iraq. But then, North Korea is just as full of bluster and bullshit as Condoleezza Rice. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry says, “If the US keeps pestering us and increases pressure, we will regard it as a declaration of war and will take a series of physical corresponding measures.” What measures? North Korea didn’t say. Rice warned North Korea that it now risked sanctions “unlike anything that they have faced before.” What will the upshot of all these threats be? If any military measures are actually resorted to, North Korea will probably attack South Korea to show the US who’s the boss. And the US will do nothing except harangue about sanctions. This morning, the New York Times reported that the US would attempt at the UN “to persuade other countries to cut off economic ties with North Korea”. Lots of luck with that. And the US would use “American banking laws to punish banks overseas that deal with North Korean companies”. Uh huh! In addition, the NYT said, “Sanctions sought by the United States include international inspections of all cargo moving in and out of North Korea to detect weapons-related material. But that might prove difficult for China and Russia to accept, in part because their coastlines and borders would be affected.” North Korea has called the US bluff and our super powers have been so eroded that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice can do little but shake her finger and put on her school-marm face. It’s hard to come up with an argument that sounds reasonable to refute North Korea’s whine that the US had a benign attitude about India’s nuclear technology, so why can’t North Korea have some nuclear weapons? Well, we think India is nice and we think you’re mean, so there! If nuclear technology weren’t so toxic and unfriendly, and so capable of inflicting total damage which lasts for eons, the recent threat and response between North Korea and the United States could only be likened to tots in a sandbox. Unfortunately, these tots are leaders of nations and both Kim Jong-il and George W. Bush are insane. And neither one has a chief of staff who can talk sense to his psychopath boss. By the way…if President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney shot each other dead in a Rose Garden duel over whose water pistol is bigger, you do know who would be President of the United States, right? None other than Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert.