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Originally Posted by olosto
Its no big deal really. They only blew up an atomic weapon the size of Nagasaki..
Yea, what to do. These guys are crazy..
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Yeah...
Though it doesn't sound like it was the size of the Nagasaki Event, but slightly smaller.
Though, I think the only option that is left is to welcome them back into the community of nations on the condition that they permit inspections of their nuclear facilities and inventory by the international community.
We have tried to make them international pariahs.
Perhaps Obama will prove that he meant what he said about reaching out to nations like Iran by actually reaching out to a nation like Iran (North Korea.)
Screw the $25 Billion in aid to Africa, if it's necessary to give that money to North Korea to get them to allow inventorying of their nuclear arsenal and their weapons production facilities and to not sell on the black market it is a cheap price.
I can not bear to think about the Kharmic Debt that the United States would have on its soul if through our grandstanding we lead to the usage of a Nuclear Weapon against ourselves, against Europe, against Japan, against South Korea or against Israel.
To paraphrase a book I read recently (Empire by something Card (same guy that wrote Ender's Game))
If you are dealing with a dog that bites and snarls at you there are few good options open to you. Firstly, if you beat the dog then you are just left with a beaten dog, and the problem is not resolved. If you kill the dog then you have a dead dog, but if you remove the reasons why it bites and snarls at you the problem is resolved. The dog is still alive and isn't even your enemy.
The only course we have is to sit down and find out exactly what the North Koreans want and if it is with in our power give it to them.
While the above may represent a great expense it is ultimately better than having the blood of millions on our hands through our failure to act.
Or we can say fuck all that mushy bullshit and erase them from the map, but then we are no better than they are, and thus that is ultimately not a solution.
Perhaps Obama will prove that he's not a bigot by reaching out to the North Koreans