North Korean Missile Test

It looks like North Korea, that small, miserable, poverty stricken country, is threatening the world! One can see the hysteria building up now for more defense spending. It's never too late to buy defense stocks when fear is rampant and a defense subcontractor is located in ever congressional district. The military, industrial, congressional, executive, judicial, and labor complex never sleeps. The warrior class are gathering their swords and shields and ready to fight the villain de jour. I suspect some people want to invade North Korea just because the state is an atheist state.

Kim Jong Il, a demigod, will be placated with food for his starving country, and a large contribution to his 401k, located in another county. Our problem is we have paid too many bribes to many small time dictators.

Kim Jong Il will not attack the United States so, mother hens rest peacful. Your chicks are safe. Besides, the roosters are scratching the dirt to sharpen their talons and they are crowing loudly. Roosters like to crow.

Russia had thousands of long range missiles aimed at the U. S. and never attacked. I doubt if "Little Kim" will attack the United States. He is a mere player on the world stage, ("All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players"-Shakespeare). Little Kim likes the attention, and his lifestyle.

People are alarmed that a previous missile test of North Korea went over Japan. What path could North Korea, and many other small countries, use to test a long range missile without flying over some other country? The United States has the luxury of being bordered by two oceans to test missiles without sending them over another country. We might request permission to send a test over another country. Who could deny us? When we test a missile it is to preserve our freedoms. When another country tests a missile it is "provocation".

Japan is calling for North Korea to be nice. Most people in the west, lacking knowledge of history, will think North Korea is the aggressor and Japan an innocent victim. Little do they know of the past invasions of Japan into Korea and the atrocities committed by Japan http://www.kimsoft.com/kr-japan.htm and that Japan annexed the Korean peninsula in 1910 and held it until the end of World War Two when, like other parts of the world, the victors divided the spoils. Now many Koreans want one Korea, like the Vietnamese wanted one country. Both countries have long histories and they do not like to be divided. How would you like it if some country invaded the United States and divided it? We tried dividing our country in 1861 and look at what happened. Yet we somehow pick certain countries and demand they remain divided, despite their ancient histories.

It is not necessary that the Japanese atrocities are true, it is only necessary the North Koreans believe they happened. Little Kim, like most organization leaders, exploits human emotions. I imagine the North Koreans want revenge, a deadly sin. -Wrath (anger) inappropriate (unrighteous) feelings of hatred, revenge or even denial, as well as punitive desires outside of justice (Dante's description was "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite")- Most of the whole human race always wants revenge, which is why we should heed George Washington's advice in his farewell address;

-"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! Is it rendered impossible by its vices?"-

Notice the last line of that paragraph. Washington was afraid our vices would prevent us from following his counsel. If the world was of one race, happy and free from war, I believe the state would tell us space invaders are just a few light years away and we should start spending trillions in defense of our future generations. Instead of fighting Muslims, Koreans, and other phantoms, we should be fighting what makes us fight.

Bilbo Baggins