It’s Kim Jong-un’s World; We’re Just Living In It

American Interest ^ | 10 Sep, 2016 | WALTER RUSSELL MEAD

[MtnClimber]

We don’t live in the world the “liberal internationalists” have imagined exists; we live in a world where, more and more, the law of the jungle applies.

News that North Korea has detonated another bomb comes as no surprise; few things are as obvious in this crazy world as the fact that this murderous dictatorship is making steady progress on its weapons program. The Norks are getting better and better at making more powerful bombs and longer range missiles to put them on. President Obama, like Presidents Clinton and Bush before him, sputters indignantly and wrings his hands, but the tick-tock tick-tock of North Korean nuclear build-up goes on.

This tells us many things. It tells us that the security situation is going to continue to deteriorate in East Asia. It tells us that China has resigned itself to an era of confrontation with Japan. It tells us that both South Korea and Japan are losing confidence in America’s will and ability to do anything serious about the scariest security problem they face.

Syrian refugees understand what kind of world we live in; so do the starving people of Aleppo. The victims of Boko Haram, now faced with a famine, get it, too. We don’t live in the world the “liberal internationalists” have imagined exists; we live in a world where, more and more, the law of the jungle applies.We don’t live in the world the “liberal internationalists” have imagined exists; we live in a world where, more and more, the law of the jungle applies.

[MtnClimber]

Thanks 0bama and hillary. We live in a much more dangerous world thanks to you.

[corlorde]

Don't forget to add Bill. Back when ‘ol Billy was President, North Korea would act up and he would immediately dispatch tons of food to Dear leader.

[AFreeBird]

Don’t forget Billy Jeff! He declared peace in our time after his nuke deal with the Norks.

Yessir, Billy Jeff saved us all........

[MtnClimber]

North Korea would act up and he would immediately dispatch tons of food to Dear leader.

I guess that showed him.

[Jack Hammer]

Kim Jong-il’s world is bedlam.

[Jack Hammer]

And that goes double for his son, Kim Jong-un.

[SERKIT]

[ozzymandus]

I remember when Grampa Kim made Jimmy and Rosalyn dance for him. That told the norks they could get away with anything.

[unixfox]

Excellent!

[buckalfa]

Sad truth is once a tinhorn dictator with no fear of mutual assured destruction gets the bomb, they pretty much are untouchable militarily. Thank you slick Willie.

[crabpott]

Now tied for first with ‘We need a bigger basket”. LMAO.

[stylin19a]

Frank is not amused.

[high info voter]

NK...... what a place for an EMP blast.....

[Rurudyne]

He’ll have to take it from Doc Gerbil first.

[jmacusa]

And lets not forget how much Islam is contributing to the madness.

[MtnClimber]

The left always seems to side with islam. It must be the attraction between evil ideologies.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Can't have it both ways though.

Can't argue against the USA being the world's policeman, can't argue that other countries around the world should provide their own defense, can't argue against nation building as policy, can't argue that the military is not a social work agency...

...and then turn around and complain when we go home and the "law of the jungle" takes over.

I agree with the four arguments listed above, but I know there will be consequences I'll have to live with.

[jmacusa]

Yup.

[Sirius Lee]

We live in a world of a globalist cabal whose primary mission at present is to depopulate the world, but without the use of nukes.

They were hoping to accomplish this with disease, civil war, starvation and the importation of muzz slimes to carry out occidenticid.

To their chagrin, Pooty Poot Putin as well as the Chinese politburo are not quite on board with their bankster utopian dreams.