Bush Calls NorthCommie Nuclear Test “Unacceptable”

10/09/2006: President Bush is talking tough while backpedaling in his nuclear rhetoric with North Korea. However, his remarks could be construed as a threat of eventual war with Iran. This portion should be reason for concern:

The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or nonstate entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable the consequences of such action

Keeping up with the Bush policy–that Iran cannot be allowed to have nukes–is a lose-lose proposition.

What Bush fails to understand: sovereign nations will pursue the weaponry of their choice. That is why we call them sovereign. We have nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, in addition to daisy-cutters, MOABs (Mother Of All Bomb), JDAMs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions), and other conventional weaponry that could lay waste to towns and cities.

Our nuclear arsenal includes intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), tactical nuclear devices (T-nukes), and even Small Atomic Demolition Munitions (SADMs, often called “suitcase nukes”).

I’m not saying we are wrong for having those weapons–far from it, as they are deterrents to other nations who may otherwise opt to risk war against us–but rather that our possession of such weapons is a function of our sovereignty.

It would be ludicrous for us to insist that Iran and North Korea cannot have nukes when in fact we have them.

The issue is not whether nations have WMDs, but rather ensuring that proxy armies–such as Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Al Qaeda–do not obtain such weaponry from sovereign nation-states.

THAT is the objective that Bush should be pursuing.

NorthCommies Test Nuke; Another Defeat for Bush

10/08/2006: When will President Bush realize that he has painted himself into a corner. He has spent the last four years upping the ante, telling the whole world that North Korea and Iran must not be allowed into the nuclear club.

North Korea and Iran are saying “You up the ante, well up yours!

By overplaying his diplomatic hand–just as he did with the Dubai Ports deal–Bush has ended up with egg on his face.

The issue is what will he do to save face?

Sure, there will be U.N. Security Council meetings. They will pass a resolution telling Ding Dong II what a naughty boy he has been. (Prediction: minimal sanctions–possibly none–will be imposed) China is already faking their disgust, calling the nuke test “brazen”. (Make no mistake: China is laughing their posteriors off, as Ding Dong II has slapped Bush in the mouth.)

But what is Bush going to do? Resume Korean War I, which would cost MILLIONS of lives? We would end up having to use nukes to win a war we would start in order to keep Nork Korea from having nukes.

That makes about as much sense as Hastert’s refusal to resign his Speaker position.