Re: [Marxism] Long Live the North Korean Nuclear Program!

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

>> My mother's cousin was very high up in the military medical  
establishment, possibly because he was a buddy of Eisenhower's son. He was part 
 of a 
study group to decide whether to nuke N. Korea. The idea was rejected ONLY  
because the prevailing winds went South & would have done great harm to the  
US troops. << 
 
Comment 
 
I believe the above captures in stark reality of how military decisions are 
 made, especially under conditions where ones national existence is not 
part of  the political and military equation. The social and political basis 
for the  board anti-nuclear weapons passion in America resides in Americaâs  
economic/political middle, as it intellectually grasp that nuclear war will  
impact them negatively. 
 
There of course will never be a social/political movement in America for  
the Russia state to disarm or protest and outrage against Russia or China  
developing new and more powerful nuclear and non-nuclear capacity.
 
Why is that? 
 
Strategic reduction of nuclear arms is like this big joke. If all the  
little players give up 1 nuclear weapon for every 500 America and Russia  
possess, this will seriously deplete American And Russia stock pile and leave  
them with only 5,000 - 8,000 nuclear weapons. China ainât giving up nothing, 
nor  am I suggesting such a thing. 
 
From the standpoint of the peoples of the Democratic Republic of North  
Korea, there is no distinction between annihilation by nuclear weapons and  
annihilation by non-nuclear weapons. From the standpoint of their military  
establishment the distinction between facing nuclear  retaliation/annihilation  
as hot war and non-nuclear  retaliation/annihilation as hot war, does not 
exist as an equation in their  political and military doctrine. Nor does such 
a distinction exist as a  component of military doctrine or consideration 
of any major political state.  The nuclear option drive an accelerated 
development of more modern means of  non-nuclear destruction in warfare. 
 
The only consideration the highly militarize state factor into their  
political and military equation is if an opponent has the ability to inflict 
the  
same level of unacceptable damages. Although many were taught to believe 
that a  nuclear exchange was high probability between the US and the Soviet 
over the  Cuban missile crisis, this was not so. The end game of that 
scenario, without  agreement with the Soviet Union, would have been the 
annihilation 
of Cuba,  rather than mutual destruction of American and the Soviet Union. 
 
In the nuclear era one does not fight a dude with a nuclear capacity and  
means to annihilate you. The new reality has not changed the general laws of  
war, but clarified the boundary beyond which one can never cross unless 
their  national existence hangs in the balance. Proxy fights take place between 
great  power. The war launched by Georgia in August 2008 is a case in 
point. Then the  Russia state responded beating the crap out of the Georgian 
state. Then Senator  McCain, running for President got all puffed up about what 
he would do if he was  President. 
 
I thought, "Yea, right." 
 
Interestingly, it seems this lesson was lost of the political/military  
establish in Poland although the people are scared to death. 
 
North Korea and the entire Korean peninsula are not vital to Americaâs  
national existence. The North Korean regime fully understands this. The regime  
also understand it cannot hit the American mainland, although Governor 
Palin  thought she saw North Korean missiles coming while looking at Russia. 
 
This situation can be diffused with a phone call. 
 
As an abstract thing, only a fool is against the abolition of nuclear  
weapons. The world is not abstract and only a fool gives up their ability to  
render an opponent defenseless or make them think twice about military  
aggression. 
 
Nuclear proliferation is a real danger to the peoples in the most highly  
militarized states, especially in the ideological chambers of their mind,  
because it has the potential to lead to many bad hair days. It is not like the 
 states of India or Pakistan care about nuclear proliferation. The question 
is  not if DPRNK should or should not test nuclear weapons. 
 
The issue is making a phone call. 
 
Somebody tell somebody to tell somebody to tell Obama to get on the phone.  
Somebody tell somebody to tell somebody to tell Hillary to get off the 
phone. 
 
The reason I do not make the phone call is that the Obama administration  
already informed the government of the DPRNK not to listen to me because I 
could  not guarantee any state agreements and then mentioned no one elected me 
to speak  on behalf of any section of the American population. 
 
The strategic thinking in the military and political establishment of the  
Republic of Korea (South Korea), are scared to death of the American 
political  and military mind and understand fully their own path to peaceful 
development  resides in the unification of Korea. Moreover, South of Korea 
would 
love  reunification with a nuclear capability. War on the Korean peninsula 
means  destruction of Korea and virtually nothing to America.  The American  
political and military mind examines the situation and say, "we can get  
televisions and cars from China." 
 
China is mildly against nuclear weapons on the peninsula for another set of 
 factors, including being the biggest trading partner with the South and 
some  long-term issues somehow connected to rewriting some history 
"clarifying" that a  "long time ago" Korea was a province of China. 
 
I was like, "damn you learn something new about history every day." 
 
The Americans really knows how to keep things stirred up on the Korean  
peninsula and then blame the North. The most conservative section of the  
American political middle says, "Look we know things are bad but we might have  
to go to war with you over developing, testing and trying to have nuclear  
weapons and violating the non-proliferation treaty. Plus all that nuclear crap 
 from testing bombs might get blown on us." 
 
The Marxist outpost of the conservative sector of the political middle  
says, "Hey you guys cannot feed your own people. Why do you need a new bomb?  
Plus nuclear proliferation is bad, kind of like AIDS on steroids only a lot  
worse. And it might blow back on us?" 
 
Me . . . I wish somebody want make the damn phone call. 
 

WL.
 
 
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