Reply With QuoteAbsolutely! Japan really stepped up this week in saying no more to North Korea. The frustration I have with the United Nations and China/Russia specifically has reached a new high. IMO, the United Nations has become the United Nations against America and should no longer be headquartered in New York City, much less anywhere in America. Granted, our latest debacle in Iraq does not help matters, yet Iraq is only a debacle because of foreign influences from the United Nations. It frustrates me to no end that we are the only country left in the world that still follows the Geneva Convention, and the same countries that only follow the GC at their convenience or not at all are the same countries that demand us to adhere to it strictly. War is exactly that, war. It is the only action remaining after diplomacy fails. Iraq thumbed their noses up for 15 + years at their sanctions. North Korea is doing the same. There should be no rules for war. Granted this is reaching 60 some odd years back, but do you all remember what ended the WW2, specifically with Japan? That is right. We can sit here and parse technicalities all day, but the atomic bomb is what ended WW2. Nuclear weapons are a horrible creation that should never have been developed in the first place. But that can not change the fact that they now here and like it or not, a part of our every day lives. With the rhetoric that is coming from North Korea and Iran in the past few months, including North Korea's threats to launch missles against the US, I really feel that if they are willing to use nuclear technology against the US then we should beat them to the punch. I know there will be responses saying there are only bluffing and that they are only trying to politically rangle us into direct US/Noth Korea talks. I say NO!!!! I am well versed on the effects of nuclear weapons and what happens once detonated, including the effects on human and animal life. What is our alternative, them sending 10 over here in 5 years first? I will guarentee all of you something, if Iran or North Korea sends nuclear weapons to our mainland, the effects will be felt much more strongly then if we send them there first. The sanctions in the past week have been watered down so much, they are virtually meaningless. No threat of military action, continued sales of conventional military weaponry.....What in the hell is that. As usual, Russia and China are getting in the way of real sanctions for monetary reasons. Do I still believe that sanctions would work, certianly. But sanctions with a bite. Our credibility is dwindling because no one is afraid of us any longer. If the Russia's and China's of the world keep going agianst us, our prominence in the world will continue to dwindle. 60 years ago, the world came to our side because they were all afraid of us, with the exception of the Soviet Union. As much as we try to politicize things with diplomacy, the basic functions of mankind comes down down to a simple formula that has been proven for centuries. The dog with the biggest stick wins. And what good is a stick if you do not use it from time to time. I say we go to the United Nations, the Security Counsel and tell them "Here are the sanctions, this is what you as a collective group will pass, North Korea has already declared war against the US, if you do not pass these sanctions, we will send two low yield thermonuclear warheads to North Korea and Iran and continue to do so every 24 hours until they give in to our demands. That is what we will do, we are the United States of America and we as a country have a right to protect ourselves". That is diplomacy. Do you think that North Korea and Iran would not give in to that? I guarantee all of you, if we do not respond, they will and my pundits who slam me for saying these things now will no longer be able to argue their side later because we, on the weat coast atleast, will be dead.
