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October 14, 2006
Fallout ....
North Korea's nuclear test should warn those in the West who think they can disarm and negotiate with monsters like Kim il Yong, or whatever his name is, pause for thought. But it won't. They will continue to bleat that if we disarm everyone else won't feel threatened and won't try to steal the family silver. Its a bit like the Home Secretary's assertion this week that long jail sentences will shortly be a thing of the past because "custody in the community" will be the way to punish in future. Oops. Did I say punish - I meant reward.
The real point here is that history is full of attempts to "negotiate" peace with well armed and dangerous dictators. The record of failure to achieve it is unsurpassed! Of course the "lets disarm everyone" lobby is driven by fear, the fear that they may one day be the target. Disarming themselves (and those who usually end up defending these cowards) is inevitably a recipe for becoming a target. Did gun crime go down as a result of the removal of fire arms from the legitimate user? No, it went up by eight hundred times. Surprise, surprise, guns are now more commonly available and used than ever before in the pursuit of crime - and our police are still largely unarmed. But then so are the victims. Pity the bad guys have all the guns really, it woiuld be so nice if they gave them up voluntarily.
Returning to the problem of North Korea, the real problem for us all is that frighteningly focussed people like the Great Leader and the President of Iran will stop at nothing to possess these sorts of weapon and to use them if they think it will further their own ambitions. They are also reasonably certain that the Western Media circus and the growing number of lawyers making a fortune out of suing the military for "murder", "attrocity" and "breeching human rights" will prevent us from retaliating in kind and ensure that we roll belly up and surrender rather than fight. Blair is incapable of dealing with this and so is his party. After all, almost every one of them is a card carrying member of CND (or was until they had to grow up) and they almost all subscribe to the Hammer Horror visions of a post nuclear world.
The situation with North Korea is going to be a major worry, because this Great Leader will no doubt win friends from within the Security Council and among the mavericks of the Middle East by peddling his bombs to them in return for oil and cash. And the UN will do nothing except wring its collective hands about the human rights and tragedy of the starving in North Korea. The cynic in me says they won't do anything because North Korea hasn't got any oil and it has nothing of value to anyone outside of the region. And, if they do blow up a few million in South Korea, China and the surrounding area - who'll miss them?
The first encouraging news that the US satellites had detected no radiation has now been dashed by the report that there is now radiation emerging. Not good news for anyone - particularly in a world as unstable as our present state of transition and indecision in the Democratic world. Let's hope that their neighbours, China and the rest of that Region can take effective and decisive action to remove the threat this ghastly little megalomaniac poses to the whole world quickly and as painlessly as possible.
Posted by The Gray Monk at October 14, 2006 09:06 AM
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