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Greetings, my friends,
Did that headline grab anyone's attention? I hope so!
Now, why would I put up such a headline? It's really very simple. I wanted to get a jump on all the reporters and news companies who are about to do all they can to make the world certain that the US is somehow behind the test-firing of the missiles that North Korea just sent up.
Frankly, I've just about had it up to here with the way the world seems to be pouncing on the US these days. The incredible amount of misinformation available is astonishing!
Someone recently even posted on one of my forums that if the US was gone, there would be NO wars! Ludicrous!
Now that North Korea has fired the missiles, what are we going to hear? Just the day before, while Western Allies, including the US, were warning the world about the potential consequences of North Korea having Nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver the warheads to North American soil (or Europe, for that matter), many people scoffed, saying that the US was simply scaremongering and that North Korea would NEVER fire the missiles - that it was simply a bluff - that that country couldn't possibly AFFORD that kind of technology.
Well, guess what? They were all wrong. The North Korean government would rather starve its own citizens while it spends its money on arms. It wants to be a superpower and will stop at nothing to get there.
"Running the closest thing to George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother slave camp, Kim Jong-il had no compunction letting 2 million of his people die of starvation rather than concede he was on the wrong side of history. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a missile test would be a provocative act that would deepen its isolation, it is hard to imagine North Korea being more isolated. Angered over the U.S. Treasury's crackdown on its counterfeiting millions in near-perfect $100 bills, Pyongyang abandoned six-country negotiations last fall. " http://www.segye.com/
The fact that North Korea's new ICBM was an abysmal failure is a good thing, but should not be taken by the world as proof that the country is not a threat to be taken seriously. The fact is, they WANTED it to work. The fact that it didn't is moot.
What amazes me at this time is the number of people, both in other Western nations around the world, and right in the United States, who constantly and vehemently attack the policies of the government of the United States, while saying little or nothing about North Korea or Iran, both of whom have openly threatened to fire nuclear weapons at other countries, and both of whom have the capabilities and resources to carry out their threats very soon.
People need to wake up and realize that there really are people in the world mad enough to start a nuclear war, who need to be stopped before they start! People have to realize that YOU DO NOT WAIT for a nuclear war to start. Once it starts, it's too late. No matter who wins, everybody on the planet loses.
Perhaps most people would like to gamble that it will never happen. Personally, I don't like the odds against it happening. If someone doesn't do something soon to stop it, it WILL happen.
We can try negotiation. We can try diplomacy. Perhaps we can convince North Korea to fall in love with the rest of the world. Perhaps we can convince Iran to fall in love with Israel. Anyone have any ideas HOW?
God bless,
Dave
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