Thoughts on War

[eredien]

Well, really. France'd better be opposing possible joint US/British governance over Iraq. I'd be worried if they weren't. I'm worried that we're considering it, and I live here.
Can't say I'm suprised about the fact, though.

About this early surrendering of some bits of the Iraqi army: I can't put my finger on why it's making me feel this way, but I'm getting a really strong, "Oh, no! Don't throw me into the briar patch, Brer Wolf!" feeling off of this entire war.

It might be silly to talk about the war based on a feeling. But hey, I'm not the only one who's done that.

And, finally, let's be accurate. Kim Jong II is a dangerous, obsessive, psycopathic tyrant with nuclear weapons. Not a "pygmy". I have no use for a person who calls anyone, even Kim Jong II, nasty little names.

Comments

[fangtsu.livejournal.com]

Why are we not a lot more worried about Kim Jong???

[homasse.livejournal.com]

*That's what I'd like to know* (sez the chick living in Japan.) Why's Bush so hung up on Saddam--yes, and evil man, I'm not questioning that one at all--when Kim Jong Il is pretty frickin' dangerous himself, and whose people are already starving and without power and have nothing to lose anymore, and if he doesn't have nukes now, will have them soon? Kim Jong, whose regime has children watching anti-American videos from grade-school up and are taught paranoia and distrust of anyone non-North Korean damned near from the cradle? Kim Jong, who has *more than once* launched weapons at Japan just to show that if it wanted to, it could bomb Tokyo? Who launched a missle *the day* the new South Korean president was inaugurated, when Colin Powell was visting S. Korea? A regime that has *admitted* to kidnapping Japanese nationals over a ten-year period, and has lied about the fates of some of them, and who is currently keeping the *families* of these poor people more or less hostage--they allowed the Japanese nationals still *alive* that they admited to to return to Japan for a month, sans their family, and then, when Japan refused to make the people go back to Korea, N. Korea refused to allow their families to come to Japan (chosing instead to let teenagers be left parentless, with no idea where their parents are or that they are the children of kidnapped Jpanese nationals--many of them think there parents are Koreans who had been born in Japan) and has refused to negotiate with Japan until the *kidnapped JAPANESE people* are returned to the country that kidnapped them--the time these poor people have been without their families is approaching the six month mark about now.

Kim Jong Il starves his people while he has lavish parties, authorizes the kidnapping of other foreign nationals just because (he had a prominent S. Korean director and his wife kidnapped and brought to North Korea to make *movies* for him), has millions of dollars stashed away in Swiss bank accounts. Enemies of the state are forced into hard labor and tortured. But we don't care. The American government seems to *totally not give a fuck* at all about any of this.

I don't get it. I just don't.

[(Anonymous)]

Kim Jong Il has the back of China behind him. I *do* hope that Bush will get around to deal with N.Korea, but it'll have to be a subtler process than the notably *unsubtle* one we are seeing in Iraq...

-Aris