Posted on 10/14/2006 1:28:55 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
I would break the ceasefire. Is it worth it for such a small, meaningless act? As a practical thing, who knows what despot would replace this despot? Could be worse.
I do think this is the correct thing even though it is satire.
Bush Mulls Bombing N. Korea ‘Back to the Food Age’
by Scott Ott
(2006-10-10) — Even as President George Bush insisted that the U.S. would continue to pursue diplomacy in the North Korean nuclear crisis, he added today that every option is still on the table, including the possibility of “bombing them back to the food age.”
“It breaks my compassionate conservative heart that Kim Jong-Il’s people are starving while he’s blowing millions of dollars on weapons of mass destruction,” said Mr. Bush. “If it weren’t for U.S. and United Nations food aid, he’d have a massive famine on his hands.”
The president suggested that a carefully executed bombing campaign, or a Special Ops military unit, could return the country to “the food age” — a time when the Korean people could feed themselves without assistance.
“Sometimes,” the president said, “it takes guns to make butter.”
Taking action is
what Muslims do. The West will
arrest and try him . . .
As a point of information when did we ever do this? I know about Castro's exploding cigars but aside from that when have we ever gone around killing off third world leaders? (Or even first world leaders)
Assassination of foreign leaders is at best unreliable policy. One is never certain how much of the difficulty lies with the leader and how much he or she is merely a front man for the real problem. Iran's Ahmadinejad is a perfect example of this. Nor are results always predictable - the South Vietnamese government never really did recover from Diem's assassination.
While it does not surprise me that a freshman at university is under the impression that the U.S. has slaughtered inconvenient Latin American leaders wholesale it isn't actually the case. People have been repeating that Salvador Allende was so assassinated for so long now that serious historians are about the only people to believe otherwise, on campus at least. The trouble taken to capture Manuel Noriega where a simple bullet would have done the job seems to me to indicate quite the reverse. Danny Ortega is still drawing breath, as is Hugo Chavez. The U.S. is much more often (and accurately) accused of supporting, or at least not opposing, a number of two-bit tyrants because they're "our son-of-a-bitch." As usual, the accusers on the left want it both ways.
I don't think it's likely to happen with Kim any more than it did with Muqtada al-Sadr, another fellow whose appearance might, IMHO, be improved by a .45 caliber hole between the eyes. It would be nice if problems were that easily solved, but they usually aren't.
I will bet anyone here, the best hamburger that Burger King sells, that if Kim detonates another nuclear weapon, some Chinese sniper will drill Kim a new anus in the middle of his forehead. Not only will there be a regieme change in North Korea, I predict a sudden termination of the bloodline of Kim...
I realize a lot of people here don't have much faith in the UN, and neither do I, but today's Security Council resolution was a very big deal for the Chinese. North Korea would do themselves very well to quietly back down, because the Chinese are really not in a charitable mood for their little yellow brothers...
Kim?, Cowboy Bob wrote:
I think it should be left to the Chinese.
Well, I agree, but how do you get him to stand in front of a tank in Tienneman square?
According to Francois Rabelais, among the Latin books studied by Pantagruel was one titled "Concerning the things that ought to be passed over in silence". I'd say that the discussion of this subject was surely belonging there, in the footnotes. "Pity that he endures".
The history of assassination is that it is mostly tried by someone close to the person on which the attempt is made. Maybe that's the way to go.
But we should definitely try to knock off Kim Jong "Jabba The Hut" Il.
I'd say hire a Jewish hit squad.
I can't believe I agree with something written in the Yale News Daily.
At least he would't be ronery anymore.
Great graphic.NK looks absolutely barren in comparrison to the south.
Way ahead of this guy I considered it years ago. I am already considering Irans president.
Contrast this clear thinking freshman to the loons at Columbia University that wouldn't allow the Minutemen to speak and violently rushed the stage.
I thought the same thing. Other than that, I thought it was an excellent piece.
I think you are right.
He's a friggin' loon, sure. But his death would change little, since an NK army general would probably take control.
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