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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
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  • Help me out with this. Through a Presidential and (in four weeks) two mid-term elections in the US; through elections in France, Canada, Germany and Iraq; through the semi-retirement of the British Prime Minister; through the run-up to the election of the new Surgeon-General (or whatever he's called) of the United Nations we have heard one refrain:

  • Enough, already, of the United States trying to impose its will on the whole rest of the world.

  • For the purposes of this discussion, let us stipulate that the "will" which the US is attempting to impose on the planet finds its origins in these 110 words:

    • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;

    That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

  • That's a pretty good summary of what has become known as the "Bush Doctrine" and which is at the center of what Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton and the others who are salivating in the expectation of power have been so opposed to.

  • So here's the part I don't get: If the rest of the world wants George W. to butt out, why is that same rest of the world now demanding that George W. to butt IN on this North Korean business?

  • I just looked at a map and I found that there are plenty of countries which are closer to North Korea than we are. In fact, just about EVERY country is closer to North Korea than we are.

  • In addition to the big names - Russia, China and Japan which are next-door neighbors - other countries which are closer to North Korea than the US include Brunei, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.

  • Here's a plan: Why not have the UN convene a high-level meeting of the Three Bees - Brunei, Bhutan and Bangladesh - and empower them to solve this..

  • That would be no more nor less consequential than most of the other nonsense on which the UN spends its time and our money.

  • Whether or not Kim Jong Il, the goofball who runs North Korea, actually set off a nuclear device over the weekend, he certainly will sometime in the near future. However, assuming he has no way to mount that device on anything more advanced than a captured 1952 Jeep, we are a long way, both in time and distance, from being directly threatened by one of them.

  • While surfing for the CIA's World Factbook, I came across this from a press release:
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    Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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    Reply # 1
    Date: Oct 12, 2006 - 7:28 PM EST
    No, China is letting Kim...
    ...thumb his nose at us, like the sock puppet he is. They're quite well aware that we won't do anything because we've grown too dependent on China for everything--including the fact that our economy hasn't collapsed under the weight of the national debt. What happens when they decide they don't need to buy our Treasuries anymore and start selling them in order to pay for their own economic development?

    Their goal is to make the world safe for China, which means ultimate control of the world economy.

    What can we do about it? I don't have any answers at this point. Just be aware that all China has to do is stop buying Treasuries and start selling them to send our economy into a recession. They'll be careful not to do that until they feel they don't need our economy as a place to sell their goods anymore because their people have grown wealthy enough to buy their own goods.

    Just something to think about.
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    Reply # 2
    Date: Oct 12, 2006 - 11:22 AM EST
    To answer the fifth bullet point...
    Because we have enough nukes to turn South Korea into an island if it comes to that?

    North Korea is more China's problem than ours. They can replace Kim any time they want to. I think this is more Kim thumbing his nose at the Chinese than at us, showing that they can't control him.
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