First of all, it’s none of our business. Neutrality is what we should adopt. Sound familiar? Those were the first two sentences of Monday’s column. Now, the US says it might barricade all North Korean ports, and stop and inspect all ships going in and out of north Korea! The UN might come up with a resolution by week’s end, but no one pays any attention to the UN anymore, so that will not solve anything. Now Kim says he will strike the US with nuclear tipped missiles if we don’t leave him alone. All sounds rather ominous, doesn’t it? I doubt that Kim even exploded an atomic device in the first place, and his long range missiles won’t go anywhere near us, and all fired so far fizzled, but that’s not the point. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US. Japan is worried, as they should be, as should South Korea and China. Should we worry? Should we be in the picture at all? Didn’t Germany declare war on us in 1941, because we were supplying arms to the Brits? Didn’t the Japs bomb Pearl harbor because FDR was cutting off their oil, scrap steel, etc? Neither had anything to do with us! We got into WW II and WW I, as well as Korea and Vietnam because of our not being neutral, and not minding our own business. None of these four wars had anything to do with us, nor threatened us. They only bankrupted us and killed hundreds of thousands of American soldiers.
Where did North Korea get its nuclear stuff? From us, thanks to Bill Clinton, who threw in many millions besides, to attempt to make Kim Jong Il behave and be nice, which he promised to do. Why should he? The goodies just flooded into North Korea, thanks to Bill. When the goodies stopped, he became angry and threatening…sort of like welfare recipients who commit most of the crimes around the world, huh? Did you ever see a more skinny, unhealthy bunch of people than the North Korean army? They look like skeletons! No one is eating very well there, and it will get worse if China and Japan and South Korea have their way, and of course the US too. Will a war start again, and get us involved, because we can’t mind our own business?
If North Korea is a threat to Japan, South Korea, and China, LET THEM SOLVE IT. Let them block the ports and examine the ships. Let them drop a few bombs on the North Korean nuclear and missile sites and blow them to smithereens, but LEAVE US OUT OF IT. Everyone thinks neutrality is impossible and makes us look wimpy and weak. Sorry guys, the opposite is true. It takes brains and guts to mind one’s own business and protect our home at home, and not run around the world with tanks, bombs, planes, ships, missiles, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.. This, of course would starve the military-industrial complex which Ike warned us about 50 years ago. Get us OUT of Korea, and do it NOW. Let them defend themselves and solve their own problems. And while we are about it, get the hell out of the UN, stop supporting it, and get it out of America!