Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. Russia is sending envoys to Cuba and Venezuela. Iran has been reported to have enough enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon. China is still engaged in sovereignty struggles with Taiwan and Tibet. I don't know if you guys have heard of this little country called Israel, but they aren't doing too well internationally either.
Now North Korea is saying that they are going to turn their nuclear reactor back on. Experts agree that the main purpose for this maneuver is to try and show the United States that they won't be pushed around by any one country. Pyongyang wants to maintain the six country talks but not submit to unilateral pressure. That makes complete sense. We, most of all, should understand this. While we won't bend to the desires of Russia or Iran, we will listen to NATO or the UN. Nobody wants to be bullied.
It makes sense for us to be worried about any other nation to gain nuclear armaments. It also makes sense for other nations to be wary of our current ownership of such. What right do we have to be the sole owner of these weapons? Who gave us permission? Did we ask? Do we have to? The answers are none, nobody, no, and no. The answers for any current non-nuclear nation is sovereignty, nobody, no, and no. If a sovereign nation wants to make nuclear weapons than they can, because they are sovereign. Look up the word and realize that that means the United States cannot dictate terms to anyone else.
Notice also that North Korea is perfectly willing to do without American aid and doesn't mind being on the blacklist of terror-supporting nations. They don't need our help and don't recognize our list as anything with power. Good for them. Maybe if more countries acted this way we would stop being imperialist. I have a feeling that this won't be the last we hear about nuclear weapons because of the first pararaph of this blog. Get settled in for a long nuclear winter.
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Hmm. Good point. I never did agree with the whole "America policing the world" stratagem." But, remember, we are still TECHNICALLY at war with North Korea. Hence the several military bases on the borders of South Korea....
ReplyDeleteSo, yeah, if we are still at war with them (it's just a cease-fire last i read) and the are saying they want nuclear weapons....shouldn't that strike worry, just slightly, into you? I never have seent he power of a nuclear missile first hand, but I hear it's kinda destructive, so i don't want an enemy of the United States to have one, not while we are, you know, still at true WAR with them.
Congress never declared war. Read your history and your constitution. So all your points are invalid.
ReplyDeleteThen explain the cease-fire?
ReplyDeleteIt's a cease-fire not a treaty. Only Congress has the power to declare war and they didn't.
ReplyDeleteLeviathan is right. The last time this country was truly at war was WWII. Now we all know that Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf I, Gulf II, Afghanistan etc. were all wars. We don't need legal definitions to tell us that when we send our troops against another entity, be it a military, paramilitary, or enemy combative entity, it is war. When we mobilize our troops to kill others and our sons come back in flag draped coffins, it is war. These are illegal, unofficial, and useless wars that have nothing to do with our national security. But, we all know they are war.
ReplyDeleteAlso guys, I would like throw something out there about our involvement in these situations. These countries are itching militarily. I do not think we should get involved unless we are directly threatened. Even then we should exhaust all other possible options before we send troops. We have a tendency to make bad situations worse. I am reminded of the wise words of the great American Harry S. Truman, "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."
ReplyDeleteWar is the state of prearranged conflict that creates an environment conducive to combined hostile efforts between two engaging parties in order to facilitate the transfer of power. In his seminal work, On War, Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the "continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means."[1] War is an interaction in which two or more militaries have a “struggle of wills”.[2] When qualified as a civil war, it is a dispute inherent to a given society, and its nature is in the conflict over modes of governance rather than sovereignty. War is not considered to be murder or genocide because of the usually organized nature of the military's participation in the struggle, and the organized nature of units involved.
ReplyDeleteQuoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War
Good quote Libertyhound
I know, this country has been in conflict after conflict,, but the point that North Korea's leader is not mentally stable. He wants nuclear weapons and he wants to use them to destroy things, not defend himself. That's a might bit scary.
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