North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

I suppose most of you have heard about the failed launch in North Korea this week.  It’s been all over the news.  Apparently, as the story goes, they invited a bunch of media type folks over to watch the launch during the celebration of their recently dead rulers 100th birthday. 

I’m sure he was watching from whatever plain of existence he currently resides on and is likely furious.  It was a truly craptastic showing, as you might expect.  North Korea simply doesn’t have the knowledge or resources to be a credible global nuclear threat. 

There’s the argument.  Apparently, there are many people who disagree with me.  I have people just screaming for sanctions.  As stunning of a plan as that is, I see no reason to do the same thing that has failed for over half a century again.  Economic sanctions against other nations have never gotten us anything by enmity from them.  It doesn’t prevent anything, it pisses them off. 

Imagine that.  Blockading a nation might anger them.  Who would have guessed that?

I also hear people talking about war with North Korea.  That scares me far more than NK having a global capable nuke.  Here’s the deal.  An ICBM launch would be detected before the missile was halfway out of it’s silo.  Interceptor missiles would be fired and aircraft launched as a backup to those missiles, before it cleared North Korean Airspace.  It would be destroyed shortly thereafter. 

North Korea is not a credible threat to anyone but South Korea, and only then using conventional military forces and weapons.  Any nuclear launch would be detected faster than immediately and destroyed well before it was a threat to anything. 

Iran is another topic.  Their nuke program is similar to that of North Korea.  It’s not a threat to anyone.  IF they were to be dumb enough to make an attempt to follow through with the threat to try to destroy Israel, they would fail, and they would get their collective asses handed to them by just about every other nation on the planet.  It would be an epic fail moment in the history of their country.  Ridiculously so.

So, we have a choice.  There are three options open to us, that I see.  First, we issue more BS posturing and sanctions, pissing off North Korea.  Second, we can call in the military and end the situation.  Lastly, and the option we really should be pushing for.  We do nothing.  They haven’t threatened anyone recently, and the last time they did we choose to do nothing about it.  They don’t have the ability to be a credible threat, and by pushing them further into the corner, we force them to think of alternative ways to defend themselves.  If we continue, we will end up battling North Korean terrorists as well as the Middle Eastern terrorists we already have to deal with.

Because we don’t know when to leave other nations the hell alone.

Should Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum Call It Quits?

I’ve heard lots of people mouthing off lately about how one or more of these people should realize they’re not going to win and drop out of the race.  The general idea being that a ton of money is being spent on this little preliminary step that could be better spent to fight Obama. 

I disagree.  Entirely.  Completely.  Whole-heartedly.

Yes, there is a metric butt-load of money being spent.  There’s always a ton of money being spent.  It’s what politicians do.  They spend a ton of money given to them by supporters to get into office and demand money from everyone so they can spend even more.  Tis the way of the world in the 21st century.  While that’s not particularly a good thing, the people complaining about it are really a little out of touch with reality. Here’s a quick fact check.

IF all three of these candidates dropped out and left only Romney, he would most certainly get he nomination.  The Republican National Convention would be over before it started, and we’d be on to the press covering Obama as he talks about how horrible the GOP and Mitt Romney are because they want to kill old people and deport starving students.  Maybe he’d be more creative than that, but not much. 

On the other hand, with all these candidates, we’re helping to keep some people focused on the race.  Even the Democrats are watching to see what happens.  Some of them like what they are hearing from some of the Republican candidates.  Ron Paul in particular has a great deal of pull for some Democrat party-line voters, but there are some Dems that like Santorum or Newt as well.  There are a lot of Dems who are not happy with Obama, being that he broke nearly every promise he made during his campaign.  Some of those people will gladly support another candidate, if they hear from one they like, but they don’t think they’ll ever support a Republican.

They just don’t know it yet.  The circus that the GOP has going on right now is keeping people interested, keeping the media covering the Republican candidates, and keeping people hearing messages that normally they would not hear.  If we want to just drop all that and have Romney go head to head with an incumbent President, we can do that.  And he’ll lose.  Badly.  At least this way, even though I believe Romney will lose, he has a fighting chance. 

Keep people focused, keep people listening, and keep people caring about what is going on.  The more we’re hearing from the R’s, the less we’re hearing from the D’s.  That’s a good thing in and of itself.

I’m back again… finally

Yes, it’s true.  I am finally back, after having had to send my machine back for warranty work the day after getting it back from having warranty work done.  So far, it’s working fine, now that I’ve spend a bunch of time restoring it.  Who knows how long that will last. 

I can promise you, if this thing goes back again, I’m going to blast a certain computer company every where I can, and I can blast in a lot of places.  NOT a happy guy in regards to this garbage, but if it’s finally fixed correctly, I’m willing to let it go.

Prepare thyself, for I shall be posting 3 – 5 times a week from here on out.  At least, that’s the goal.  That’ll be a good bit of reading for ya’ll!