North Korea's Nukes - Gwinnett Daily Online Reader Input
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LAWRENCEVILLE - America woke several days ago to the surprise of North Korean nuclear tests.
While Bush has been focusing on responding to Iran's nuclear potential, North Korea has been steadily developing its capacity to do our allies immediate harm. And recently, Kim Jong-Il demonstrated that capacity, went on to threaten Japan and South Korea, and made plans to explode more devices. He then expressed an eagerness to export nuclear technology to other nations, and Bush's first comments were to rule out a military response.
Bush waving an olive branch? Hmmm. Before the US invaded Iraq, Bush
convinced America that a suspicion that a nation possesses weapons of mass
destruction is reason to invade it. And today, he's steadily building a
similar case against Iran. But North Korea has nukes, and rattles its saber
regularly, rattles it with enough conviction that Japan is considering
ditching its non-militarism, and China now seeks sufficient armaments to
respond to anything Kim Jong-Il might attempt. I believe they call that an
Arms Race, one that would be devastating for the entire region. Yet Bush
downplays this reality, and instead, continues slamming Iran. Is the
President not very bright, or just working for somebody else?
He's working for somebody else. President Bush is an Oil Man, and his years
of public service will amount to a blip on the screen of a lifelong quest
to seek money in Oil. Visit http://www.mypetgoat.50megs.com/ to learn more
about that. Not surprisingly, when he brought his team to the White House,
they were mostly lifelong oil or related industry careerists of some sort
(Visit the links listed below this article). In fact, never in the history
of America has a single industry's interests dominated a President's agenda
until Bush. Of course, the current Republican congressional majority has a
similar focus. Visit http://www.mypetgoat.50megs.com/opensecret.htm to
learn how the oil and related industries have come to increasingly dominate
overall donations to the Republican party over the last 10 years.
What's at the root of America's off-kilter foreign policy? Single-industry
dominance of Republican interests in Washington. We're so used to this by
now, we don't even see it. For a moment, then, let's imagine a different
industry holding sway in the White House. Imagine America electing a
Silicon Valley executive for President. He'd bring all his high-tech
buddies with him to the White House, and the halls of Congress suddenly
start to look like a Microsoft convention. Let's say this President starts
to center our foreign policy around nations with strategic chip
manufacturing capabilities. We'd not stand for it, would we? We'd say "What
you're doing doesn't serve America's interest, only your own." But since
we are so used to hearing Liberals complain about "Big Oil," we don't
really pay attention to how much the Oil Agenda has come to define
America's world goals.
And, as a result of our blindness, one of our deepest collective fears has
come true: A near-madman possesses nukes. Is this what it takes to get us
to send the Republicans home this fall? I hope we finally do it.
Links for exploring President Bush's Oil-Friendly Cabinet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1138009.stm
http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2001/01may/may01bushcc.html
http://crikey.com.au/articles/2003/01/31-oilandiraq.html
http://www.utne.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=utne_web_specials&story.id=11232
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