Back to Business

Okay, enough of this idle chit-chat, let's get back to business. First item on the agenda: What are we going to do about North Korea? Of course, if MacArthur had been allowed to finish the job back in the 50s, North Korea wouldn't even be on the map today. This is not hindsight, everybody said so at the time. Well, maybe not everybody, but lots of people, okay some people. Actually, I was pretty young in those days, but I seem to remember hearing somebody say that, maybe it was my father, and that was good enough for me. I also remember reading, years later, that MacArthur was kind of a prick. I understand that Kim character is also a prick, and we've got a prick in the White House now, so maybe it's an idea whose time has come.

One option is to wait and see if that Kim character is actually going to do anything, or if he is just tweaking Uncle Sam's beard. I understand that North Korea and other third world countries agreed not to develop nuclear weapons a long time ago, and that they were paid handsomely for it. With inflation and all, maybe Kim just wants to extort more money out of us. My first instinct is to say "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!", but bribery might be cheaper in the long run than nuclear Armageddon. The thing is, though, if Kim gets away with that, then every tin horn dictator in the world is going to want a piece of the pie. One thing I learned in school is that, if you give a bully what he wants, he and others will come back for more again and again. Sometimes you need to take a stand, even if you get your ass kicked. My experience with bullies is that it doesn't matter so much if you win or lose, as long as you fight back.

It might not be nuclear Armageddon anyway. I understand that our guys have finally developed the anti missile missile after talking about it for decades. If that's true, maybe they can shoot down those missiles before they hit Guam. It would be nice if they could shoot them down while they're still over North Korea so most of the fallout will land there, but I don't know if they have the ability to do that. Even so, just because they fire a few nuclear weapons at us, doesn't mean we have to respond in kind. North Korea isn't such a big country, our guys could probably devastate it with conventional weapons in short order. Of course, just because they can do it doesn't mean they will do it. Where is MacArthur when we need him?