Another Nuclear Nation

Holey Ghost
Holey Ghost Posts: 744
edited October 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Another Nuclear Nation
Can anyone stop
The proliferation

Mutually Assured Destruction
Is called into question
And what, the world's reaction
What the world's actions, will be

While it’s populace goes hungry
Precious resources
Are poured
Down an atomic sinkhole
With only status, to show

And the neighbors quake
At what’s at stake

Crying for attention
Jostling for position
While people go hungry
Missiles for delivery, are made
And an Ace, is played
While Security is slayed
A Stalemate is paved

Another Nuclear Nation
Can anyone stop
The proliferation
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    The news was upsetting tonight for sure. :(
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The explosion was sub-kiloton in size. And considering all the US Patriot missiles in the region, anything fired overground wouldn't get far. As for selling parts to "turrrists", they can get them from Pakistan.

    It's a mid-term distraction from Foley.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Profileration is worrisome, but if there's a global free market agenda, how else do you protect your economic sovereignty against a nuclear powered hegemony? I'm anti-nuclear, but if I applaud any state protecting themselves against total economic takeover.

    And you know, I watched the US CNN today. There was a "report" on human rights abuses in North Korea. When I heard scary incidental music and slow motion footage in the report, I knew I was watching propaganda. A supposed old woman lying dead in the road, and this is commonplace? Wait. I want a doctor to pronounce her dead at the scene, not a shaky camera, and some funereal (that's the adjectival form of funeral) music.

    Don't buy this.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Take the word "if" from the phrase "if I applaud", in that last sentence.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    jeez fins. anyone would think you condone north korea's actions.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    catefrances wrote:
    jeez fins. anyone would think you condone north korea's actions.

    I condone them as much as I condone the US, Israel, India or Pakistan having nukes. I condone none.

    However, I don't buy this propaganda, this scaremongery. France did underground tests for over forty years, with bigger armoury. North Korea's test is sub-kiloton: that is, negligible. Did you know that oil prices have gone down in the US, too, this week? Mid-term elections are on the way, nobody's actually that scared of Bin Laden broadcasts anymore, and now we're getting this Austin Powers like portrayal of a communist bogeyman with a bomb, to distract John Doe from the Foley issue (the very kind of issue the Republicans played against Clinton to assert a moral highground in the mid-term period of the late nineties).
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I agree that it's probably just more fear-mongering but what concerns me is the potential for more poor management on the administration's part. What mistakes will they make diplomatically with this?! :(
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    whoa there, i'm on the same side as you fins. i know all the tricks. and my government has harshly condemned the koreans. and it all just makes me laugh. little johnny howard is calling in the north korean ambassador today for a good tongue wagging which i am sure mr. ambassador will convey to hanoi with the appropriate seriousness and respect due. ;)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    justam wrote:
    I agree that it's probably just more fear-mongering but what concerns me is the potential for more poor management on the administration's part. What mistakes will they make diplomatically with this?! :(

    I did note how keen Bush was to suggest an arms-trade link between North Korea and Syria; and how Sherman from the Albright group was quick to push this idea. However, Bush is going to have to rely on someone else for dodgy dossiers, this time: Blair's not going to do it.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I did note how keen Bush was to suggest an arms-trade link between North Korea and Syria; and how Sherman from the Albright group was quick to push this idea. However, Bush is going to have to rely on someone else for dodgy dossiers, this time: Blair's not going to do it.

    Yeah. I think they're already talking about having a way to bond with China. :p
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    justam wrote:
    Yeah. I think they're already talking about having a way to bond with China. :p

    I was saying that this morning. :p
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    catefrances wrote:
    whoa there, i'm on the same side as you fins. i know all the tricks. and my government has harshly condemned the koreans. and it all just makes me laugh. little johnny howard is calling in the north korean ambassador today for a good tongue wagging which i am sure mr. ambassador will convey to hanoi with the appropriate seriousness and respect due. ;)

    of course any idiot would have realised that the capital of north korea is in fact pyongyang, not hanoi.
    but you know all them communists are the same anyways. aren't they? :p;)
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