I was reminded this past week about one of the worst times of my life; when death by fire seemed imminent. It wasn’t only my own demise but everyone I knew. Hell, everybody in the world. It was 1962, I was 16, and President Kennedy was on TV showing grainy images of what he said were Soviet missile installations in Cuba with more on the way. The United States wasn’t about to allow enemy nuclear weapons so close to our shores. It was an act of war and could not be condoned. But the Russians basically denied everything and scoffed at our instance that the bases be taken down and ships loaded with nuclear weapons turned around for home. It was to become the most terrifying game of chicken in world history. Eventually, Soviet Premier Khrushchev decided he didn’t want to be the one who started the first nuclear war in which mutual destruction was assured, so he called his missile-laden ships back and agreed to supervised dismantling of those already in Cuba.
So, what has happened to conjure up those awful recollections?
That baby-faced, disco-lovin’ Dennis Rodman admiring, saber-rattlin’ little punk, Kim Jong-un who..by accident of birth..is the undisputed exalted ruler of Communist North Korea. At age 29 he is the youngest head of state in the world; inheriting all power from his recently deceased lunatic father, Kim Jong-il. He stands as master over the fourth largest army in the world and, even though it has made him an outcast among civilized nations and brought about worldwide economic sanctions, he’s been testing nuclear weapons and publically threatening war with the U.S. and South Korea including a preemptive nuclear attack against America.
David Gewirtz is a distinguished lecturer at CBS Interactive, is an author, U.S. policy advisor, and computer scientist. He recently wrote that this real life, Dr. Evil, might actually be good for the U.S.
Hmmm, really?
Then he explained that Kim Jong-un, with his idiotic rhetoric, will eventually unite Americans as only an attack or threat of an attack can do. Suddenly, all the political posturing over the economy and other seemingly critical issues become trivial and secondary to us and we revert back to the mantra of our founding fathers; “Don’t tread on Me.” How many have to learn this lesson?
Now, I know some of you, including a few of my friends, would insist that we put an end to such threats by sending a nuke in their direction. That’ll shut ‘em up. But, of course, we can’t do that…nor should we. The people of North Korea should not be held accountable or blown to smithereens because of this twisted dictator’s in-bred childish notions of how to win power and influence people. Surly, someone has told him how other megalomaniacs have fared after such threats against us; Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Osama bin laden just to name a few.
He must realize that we now have ways of blasting his missiles out of the sky and bypassing his grand armies with a few unmanned drones equipped with enough fire power to apply surgical air strikes sending he and his grey leisure-suited buddies scurrying to the hills or permanently ending his lineage of domination and terror.
Apparently there was a plot to assassinate the rotund young dictator the other day..so there’s a chance his own people will save us the trouble.
Make no mistake, there, Kim…it will take a lot more than political posturing and a sequester to divide this country against threats..real or imagined..from a pip squeak like you.
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At the risk of insulting some of my liberal friends, he is a hero to many on the left here in the US.
Doug, I think the reason this guy is so antagonistic is because he has really short——-fingers. Later, Denny
Ever wonder what all the medals his generals have are for? There has been no combat in North Korea for over 60 years! Ever wonder what all the medals on our generals are for? We haven’t won a war in over 60 years! When we did win during WWII we weren’t the least bit afraid to bomb the living hell out of Germany! We bombed military targets, we bombed civilian targets, we bombed cathedrals, we bombed places we’d already bombed, BUT we won! The same holds true for Japan! We won! If we are going to go to war with someone, we have to stop sending poor and middle class 18 year old young men over to win hearts and minds. We send then over to win a war. They are there to kill the enemy. Nothing more. Recently a rich diplomat was killed, and all congress could do was complain that we didn’t send enough poor and middle class young soldiers over there to die and protect the diplomat who should have been busy winning hearts and minds.
Doug….I agree with your comment….this little snot should be spanked into next week and sent to his room….those elders by his side look like puppets….and it looks like they get a medal for everyday of the week…what a bunch of idiots.
Curt
grouse, I think you should do some research on the story of the diplomat being killed. Not from the nightly news. That is one of the biggest coverups in decades, by the administration and the media, just to help get Obama reelected.
The opening address in “Patton” the movie: ” .. no poor dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country! He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!”
Well said grouse!!!!!!!! We have too many people in washington who never put on the uniform to find out what it is like on front lines!!!
Gee, Donn. Why don’t you name some of the liberals who consider Kim Jong-un their hero? You can’t? Well that makes sense because that’s just BS you’re making up.
kim, who is only 29 years old has to convince the the N Korean Generals that he deserves to be their leader. The bomb or bombs will never be deployed. They know it would be suicidal . A lot of bark with very little bite.