As reported today in the Angola Press: Condoleezza Rice has announced dates for her Korea crisis tour.
I can't wait to hear her play some old favorites like, I have no recolection of that meeting, and Heaven and Earth (as in, had we known of a threat we would have moved..) And how can we forget the classic, Mission Accomplished!
I can't wait to hear her play some old favorites like, I have no recolection of that meeting, and Heaven and Earth (as in, had we known of a threat we would have moved..) And how can we forget the classic, Mission Accomplished!
posted by imderek at
2:40 AM
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DEREK YOU SHOULD BE PRESIDENT OF THE USA.
This whole N. Korea business is quite intense. I can't imagine, with the way that all parties are posturing, how this will end in a good way. It seems more likely that this will develop in a tragic and dramatic way. I hope that Japan isn't at risk. N. Korea has said that it will deliver 'merciless blows' to any nation that carries out the Security Council imposed sanctions. Japan is a country that not only will happily carry out these sanctions; they also imposed greater sanctions of their own, and lobbied strongly for tighter sanctions with the Security Council. They're an ally of the US, and an attack on them would surely provoke us to respond. Yesterday on her sold out tour Condoleezza Rice said, apparently in an attempt to dissuade Japan from developing a nuclear weapons program of their own, that the US is committed to defending Japan and if Japan were attacked that we would respond. Contracts for members of the draft board were renewed, last year I believe; indicating that the pentagon and the department of defense (formerly the department of War) would like to keep their options open, should the need to institute a draft arise.
Our military commitments in Iraq that have been publicly stated as probably lasting until 2010, taking that into account it’s hard to imagine that if we are drawn into another conflict how we could manage to commit more military resources without a draft. People I respect and admire have been saying for years that if America has a military at all they should have compulsory tours of duty for everyone, rather than a recruited army of the poor and disenfranchised. If N. Korea manages to provoke the US into a military engagement in that region and a draft is instituted to supply our military with necessary amounts of soldiers, the public will have no choice but to start paying attention. For now anyway it’s way too easy for people to be complacent and opt for watching Extreme Home Makeover instead of Frontline. If there was an imposed responsibility on everyone to carry out the States bidding, that might be a good thing for our democracy, or what’s left of it. In many ways I think that as we reach the threshold of this happening, an extreme and despotic use of power by the US over it’s people might yield positive results in the long term, yet all sorts of tragedy in the short term…
Nah mean???
IN YOUR OPINION!
syke.
wurd.
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