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columnist: Aaron Emery

Topic: Media
Mania! Gold, Nukes, and Plagues! - Part III

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Thoughts on the hysteria created by media mania - a FINAL look.

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by Aaron Emery
(libertarian)
Saturday, June 13, 2009

The United States is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons in an attack on another country.  We did it TWICE.  We're also the biggest opponent of nuclear proliferation. Interesting.  There's been a lot of talk for several years about countries that would pose a threat to "world peace" because of their nuclear programs.  According to the Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968 the U.S., China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom are allowed to own nuclear weapons.  India, Israel, and Pakistan have nukes but aren't allowed, they don't belong to an agreement that allows them to.  They're bad and I'm telling.  Iraq was pursuing nuclear technology until 1991 when we put the kibosh on that during Desert Storm.  Iran and North Korea have pursued nuclear technology for years and North Korea recently showed its might by conducting underground testing on their newest trophy nuke.  The outrage and paranoia are everywhere.  Will North Korea finally end the border dispute with South Korea and nuke them into submission?  Probably not, they do border each other, that wouldn't bode well for either.  So what of Japan?  Maybe they'll strike them and take down the Empire of the Sun.  I doubt it.

According to KNCA News Agency, the official press of North Korea, the tests were "safely conducted on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control.  The test will contribute to defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and socialism and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and the region."

Could it really be a matter of catching up in the arms race to ensure their own safety and sovereignty?  Here's what Kim Myong-chol, executive director of the Centre for Korean-American Peace in Tokyo had to say about talks with the U.S.:

"North Korea doesn't need any talks with America.  America is tricky and undesirable. It does not implement its own agreements.  We are not going to worry about sanctions.  If they sanction us, we will become more powerful.  Sanctions never help America; they are counter-productive.  We don't care about America and what they say."

And why should they?  As much as we may not like it that is a true statement.  In fact, we lay claim to being the moral and legal authority on all things nuclear.  We show mild opposition to Israel's possession of nukes, but we're vehement about Iran not pursuing nuclear technology even though we signed a treaty with them "allowing them" to explore nuclear energy.  We've started an uproar over North Korea's pursuit of nuclear arms but it's ok if other countries have them, so long as we like them.  Pakistan can't have them, but they do.  We continue to bomb them on a weekly basis going after "terrorists" and end up killing more civilians in the process.  So we give them money to shut 'em up.  Afghanistan remains a bigger mess than Iraq and is all but lost.  There are 195 countries in the world if you count Taiwan as an independent nation; the U.S. has military bases in 130 of those countries.  That's 66.6% exactly, the mark of the beast.  Coincidence?  Yep.  The fact remains though, that our oppressive military and political presence abroad pushes countries to safeguard themselves by building nuclear arsenals.  Should it surprise anyone that North Korea developed nuclear weapons after the Clinton administration gave them money and nuclear know-how?  North Korea promised us that they wouldn't pursue nuclear weapons with that knowledge and funding, yet again, another failed foreign policy.  Of course they would pursue that!  With all the nuclear powers in the world you can hardly blame ANY country for wanting to position themselves around oppressive sanctions imposed by other countries.

This whole ordeal with North Korea is really not a very big deal; as usual the global community is overreacting.  They don't ever do that.(SARS, bird flu, swine flu).  We're placing a bit too much emphasis on a third world country having ONE nuclear weapon when they can't even feed their citizens.  What a threat!  Maybe we should take a look at our destructive foreign policies first, like when we give nuclear knowledge to countries we don't want having it or funding their research.  Let's break this down.  Nuclear weapons total 25,000 - 28,000 in the world, of that the U.S. owns 35% - 40% or close to 10,000.  The issue here is not whether we WANT North Korea to own nukes, of course not, we don't want anyone to.  The issue is whether or not Korea owning 1,000,000 % LESS nukes is more dangerous than our foreign policies, which actually served to give North Korea the ability and funding to build that same ONE bomb we're whining about.  Inevitably we will sanction North Korea and find some excuse to either send peacekeepers or troops over to "diffuse the situation".  In the process we will only enflame ill sentiment and hatred toward the U.S.  Maybe we'll give nukes to North Korea's enemies; if they have enemies then those enemies MUST be friends, right?  More legislation, more government intervention in the affairs of sovereign nations; call it "Disaster Democracy".

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Mania! Gold, Nukes, and Plagues! Part I

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Mania! Gold, Nukes, and Plagues! Part II

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