Killer Queen
My roommate got tickets tickets to a musical tonight. It's a show I'd actually like to see, but he is not going to take me. Going to a musical with a guy: Pretty Gay. Going to Queen - It's Kinda Magic: A Tribute to Freddie Mercury with a guy: Extremely Gay. I support his decision to take a female.
So, how about that Kim Jong Il? He's just nutty for nukes, isn't he? Some people think that North Korea being in the "nuclear club" to be some kind of cause for alarm. Really, not so much. Sure Kim Jong Il is a wacky little bastard, but he wouldn't have survived all these years as a dictator if he didn't know how to play his cards right. The problem for poor Kimmy is that he doesn't have many cards. Being in North Korea kind of sucks. One of the few cards he has at his disposal is his reputation as a wacky bastard with a militarized state at his disposal. When North Korea wants to extort more food and aid from the pacific nations, all they have to do is act wackier and more dangerous than they have in the past, and the united powers will shovel stuff their way to keep things copacetic for everyone.
The problem with this strategy is that you need to do something even nuttier every time to get a reaction. When military manuvers stopped being scary, KJI got on the nuclear bandwagon. First he was going to start a nuclear program, so they started up some aid and he stopped it. Then he said he didn't really stop it so we gave them more aid. Then he said, "fuck you, I'm still going to do it." We were starting to get cheesed off. Sensing our ire, he staged a nuclear test, which was at best a crappy bomb and at worst a hoax.
This is where miscalculation starts. He was hoping for a "Woah, he's really serious now!" but instead he got a, "Kim, we're tired of your shit." Now the rhetoric factory is in full swing in an attempt to head off sanction talks. Sanctions are an "act of war" now. It doesn't matter. Nobody is listening anymore. All that a nuclear test did was prove to everyone that North Korea, if left alone, will only become a larger problem as time goes on. One thing is for sure, there won't be an increase of aid as a response to this one. If Kim wants to get any more play from the nuclear card, he's going to have to blow somebody up.
The only card left that he can bank on is the millions of starving North Koreans card. Things in North Korea are shitty as is. If he starts a shooting war with someone, all at once thirty million North Koreans will say "fuck this noise, I'm out" and there will be a mass-exodus for China and South Korea. Neither of those countries can handle this. War with North Korea, not a big problem. Dealing with the refugees, big problem. That's what's causing all the debate now: how to slap Kim on the wrist without flooding the borders with starving North Koreans.
As an aside, a recent poll indicated that 33% of those surveyed think that Canada should have nuclear weapons. Yeah. Great plan. We don't have people protesting enough crap as is, so lets get some nukes. Who would we ever fire them at? People who want to nuke us? Who wants to nuke Canada? The United States is right there if you can nuke us, you can nuke them, and chances are those shooting nukes dislike them way more than us. The only reason someone would attack us is if we were perceived as a threat by doing somthing like, oh, I don't know... having nuclear weapons.
So, how about that Kim Jong Il? He's just nutty for nukes, isn't he? Some people think that North Korea being in the "nuclear club" to be some kind of cause for alarm. Really, not so much. Sure Kim Jong Il is a wacky little bastard, but he wouldn't have survived all these years as a dictator if he didn't know how to play his cards right. The problem for poor Kimmy is that he doesn't have many cards. Being in North Korea kind of sucks. One of the few cards he has at his disposal is his reputation as a wacky bastard with a militarized state at his disposal. When North Korea wants to extort more food and aid from the pacific nations, all they have to do is act wackier and more dangerous than they have in the past, and the united powers will shovel stuff their way to keep things copacetic for everyone.
The problem with this strategy is that you need to do something even nuttier every time to get a reaction. When military manuvers stopped being scary, KJI got on the nuclear bandwagon. First he was going to start a nuclear program, so they started up some aid and he stopped it. Then he said he didn't really stop it so we gave them more aid. Then he said, "fuck you, I'm still going to do it." We were starting to get cheesed off. Sensing our ire, he staged a nuclear test, which was at best a crappy bomb and at worst a hoax.
This is where miscalculation starts. He was hoping for a "Woah, he's really serious now!" but instead he got a, "Kim, we're tired of your shit." Now the rhetoric factory is in full swing in an attempt to head off sanction talks. Sanctions are an "act of war" now. It doesn't matter. Nobody is listening anymore. All that a nuclear test did was prove to everyone that North Korea, if left alone, will only become a larger problem as time goes on. One thing is for sure, there won't be an increase of aid as a response to this one. If Kim wants to get any more play from the nuclear card, he's going to have to blow somebody up.
The only card left that he can bank on is the millions of starving North Koreans card. Things in North Korea are shitty as is. If he starts a shooting war with someone, all at once thirty million North Koreans will say "fuck this noise, I'm out" and there will be a mass-exodus for China and South Korea. Neither of those countries can handle this. War with North Korea, not a big problem. Dealing with the refugees, big problem. That's what's causing all the debate now: how to slap Kim on the wrist without flooding the borders with starving North Koreans.
As an aside, a recent poll indicated that 33% of those surveyed think that Canada should have nuclear weapons. Yeah. Great plan. We don't have people protesting enough crap as is, so lets get some nukes. Who would we ever fire them at? People who want to nuke us? Who wants to nuke Canada? The United States is right there if you can nuke us, you can nuke them, and chances are those shooting nukes dislike them way more than us. The only reason someone would attack us is if we were perceived as a threat by doing somthing like, oh, I don't know... having nuclear weapons.
posted by B-Boy Nothing at 12:18 PM
2 Comments:
I am going to spare the obvious comment about the average intelligence of the population and how 33% of that population chills out on the low end of the bell curve. And then not mention how this is a little more than the population of, let's just use an example here, the west part of Canada.
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger now he's dead,
Mama life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn't mean to make you cry-
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on carry on, as if nothing really matters-
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