[thechat] Getting closer

Erika Meyer erika at seastorm.com
Mon Feb 10 13:42:00 CST 2003


William Anderson wrote:

>Also, while all eyes are on Iraq, some people I think forget that North
>Korea fully realises that whatever happens to Hussein and his country,
>*their* country is next on the list of the lunatic "Axis of Evil", and a
>country with a visible and active nuclear weapons programme, and an
>undoubtedly fanatical and desperate army, is a bad kinda country to piss
>off.

North Korea is a far more obvious threat to the world at large than
Iraq.  I think the issue a cost/benefit thing: it would be a lot
harder to kick N.Korea ass and if we did so we'd lack the benefit of
all their lovely slave labor products that get filter thru China...

We seem to think we should be able to have wars and not loose any of
our own soldiers.

As noted on a link I posted last week, there are some very convincing
stories of large-scale Nazi-style death camps in North Korea, where
children are tortured along with extended families of "dissidents" --
not to mention the nukes. Surrounding countries are scared to press
the issue (China also having its own variety of slave labor camps
manufacturing goods to sell to Europe and America)  But c'mon, if the
US meant a word of what it is saying about Iraq, wouldn't something
like this be a higher priority?

In fact, just thinking about the situation in N Korea frightens me.
It's almost too much to speak of.  To know that such a situation
exists and is being ignored by the world community.

War is just failure.  War is total human failure.

E

>
>Makes you wonder what Al Gore would have done.  No matter what happens in
>the coming weeks, please Americans, for the love of $diety, VOTE FOR SOMEONE
>OTHER THAN A TRIGGER-HAPPY LUNATIC TEXAN (no offence to non-trigger-happy
>non-lunatic Texans!)
>
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