RANT

So North Korea wants us to give up our annual joint military exercise with South Korea because they fear an invasion.  What do they have that we want besides the USS Pueblo, our ship that they stole from us 40 years ago?  Come to think of it that’s not such a bad idea.  Maybe we should invade to get our ship back.  Strikes me that a country that starves its people, has the largest standing army in the world and has permitted a leader to develop the cult of personality in its most bizarre form as yet is suffering from a pretty strong lack of self-esteem.  I’d like to know how the leaders around the Kims for the last 50 years can have any shred of self-respect.  We should start the indictment process as war criminals against these scum now.  And yes, technically we are still at war with these lunatics who have devoured their own nation and people.  Lets lock a few of them up down in Cuba for awhile.  We’ve got room.  The audacity of a criminal regime dictating terms highhandedly to the US is flabbergasting.  Lob a few shells over the 38^th parallel and take out their missile facilities with a night stealth airstrike.  We pay a load of dollars for what should be the best military in the world.  Lets be smart about how we use it.  A pre-emptive strike, as our Israeli allies have conducted numerous times, diminishes or defeats a stated enemy’s ability to produce weapons of mass destruction or create real and present forms of danger to peaceful societies.  Say what you will about the Iraq war,  the world is still a better place without Saddam Hussein.  The North Korean regime must be made to pay severely for their horrific and cavalier attitude to the human rights of their own people and their brazen disregard for the issues the civilized nations of the world take them to task on.  I just pity the North Korean farmer/worker/slave.  No matter what happens they get screwed. 

F. Lynn

Boston Correspondent

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