North Korea greviously violates the armistice and the best the U.S. can do is say "Naughty Naughty Naughty stop fighting with your brother this instant?" What, no "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home?"
WHere's the outrage from the rest of the world for that matter? The U.N. will take the matter up in the next day or so? Are you fucking kidding me? By then Kim Jong Il could pound Seoul to dust with his artillery.
We have 28,000 troops sitting there as a trip wire, waiting for a million and a half screaming NorKs to come racing across the DMZ. Where is our President? Why have we heard so little from him on this? If anything happens to our troops doesn't this rise to dereliction of duty? The man is unfit for command. He will get us all killed.
I'd like to believe that Kim Jong Il is just rattling sabre here but I don't know if I quite believe it. I do believe if we had any other President the NorKs would not have been so bold.
So if he is allowed to get away with this what will his next move be? How will he up the provocation?
I understand that if we attack North Korea we may well face Chinese retaliation but there has to be more of a response than this.
And if Kim is allowed to get away with this why might the Chinese not think "Hmm, if all we'll get is a slap ont he wrist maybe, just maybe, we should revisit the Taiwan issue."
For that matter, what's to say the Chinese didn't put the NorKs up to this? "Hey, hit South Korea. We need to know how far we can push it with Taiwan."
Or maybe it's all some sort of warning or test to Obama. Today's activities, the new nuke enrichment and the misle launch.
What, that was a contrail? I don't believe it. Neither do you. I still think it could have been a Chinese sub launching a missile, right while Obama was visiting India (sooner or later there will be war between those two. There can be only one boss in Asia). They couldn't get that close? Remember this? And of course it would be played down. What kind of panic would that have brought on here? And right after their (and everyone else's) outrage over QE2.
This could be coordination between the NorKs and Iran, as Pastorius mentions over at Astute Bloggers. Draw attention away from the Hariri investigation, soon to be released findings and any preparation to cause trouble when it comes out.
This all seems a bit incoherant but so is the situation itself. And the world's response. Are they waiting to take their queue from us? That may be a long wait.
What do you think?
My opinion is, we have been at war with China for a good decade now.
ReplyDeleteIt has ramped up in the past few years.
I live near some major railroad tracks. Consequently, I see the trains go by all the time. I have noticed great changes in the past year and a half.
Three to five years ago, the average train seemed to carry about 40-80% China Shipping Containers.
Now the percentage is more like 10-25%.
At the same time, of course, China was buying our T-bills like they were going out of style.
They were essentially lending us money to buy their shit, and the more they lent us, the more shit we bought.
Then the bottom was pulled out of that.
Thing is, everybody puts the cart before the horse. People talk about how China recently slowed down buying our T-bills. But, the truth is, we massively slowed down buying their shit a year and a half back.
So, they took a year to think about it, and then pulled back on the buying of T-bills.
Now, of course, all of this is my own anecdotal evidence based upon what I have observed about trains in Southern California.
So, take it for what it's worth.
Here's what I think has been happening.
China has been using it's proxies, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and North Korea, to attack the US physically, and to keep us occupied in the ME, spending money on a losing cause.
Bush went into the White House in 2001 with China as his main concern (look it up, this is true, we've reported on it), and I don't believe he ever wavered from that.
ReplyDeleteHis response to China's attacks on us in the ME was to wage economic warfare against China.
Everyone has thought China is winning. After all, they are lending us money.
I say, they are losing.
Imagine you lend someone trillions of dollars. Imagine it. Imagine you lend someone else all your money so they can buy your trinkets. Who wins.
The person who lent all the money loses, not the person who borrowed.
How is the lender going to win, if the borrower can't, and won't pay the money back.
You think this is crazy.
Ok, so what's our response to China pulling back on buying our T-bills.
The answer is, we have enacted a policy of Quantitative Easing.
We are going to fuck up China by devaluing every dollar we owe them, so that our money is essentially worthless to them.
You say, that's crazy, Pastorius, what good does it do us to have money that's worth nothing.
Hah.
Here's what money is. Money is a temperature gauge on the creativity of a society. A truly creative/productive society can not be worth nothing.
Who is more creative and productive. You may think it's China, and you would be sorrowfully mistaken. China is a Capitalistic Oligarchy and they kill their children, quite literally.
So, what do I mean by that?
ReplyDelete1) A Capitalistic Oligarchy is a fake Capitalist system, where only the Oligarchy gets to participate in the spoils of the market. A Capitalistic Oligarchy is no better than a feudal system. It is not a system that fosters creativity, because there is no incentive for anyone to be truly creative. China is not creative. China's main import is the stealing of our technology. They would not steal our technology if they had ideas of their own.
2) China has a one child per couple policy. In 2000, the World Health Organization reported that there were 100 million missing women in the Chinese population. That's 1/10th of the people, and 20% of the women who should be there. These numbers would have gotten only worse in recent years. So, where have these women gone? They've been aborted, murdered at birth, or abandoned to the streets to die. What will happen in a society where the common man has no women? It is a recipe for chaos and violence. Women have a civilizing effect on men. Men without women will, inevitably behave in a violent, chaotic manner. Lord of the Flies write large. Not to mention, the male population will turn to homosexuality, and it will not be pretty. I do not say this in a homophobic manner. I say it in a mass prison rape manner. The whole society will be one big prison rape gang bang.
All China needs is a little push and it will topple.
it seems clear to me that the United States has been following an aggressive policy of economic warfare against China for at least a decade now, and the Obama Administration has followed it as well.
As Pamela Geller says, Iran/Syria is Tataglia and China/Russia is Barzini.
We are taking out Barzini and no one notices.
I agree with MR's analysis. The "contrail" was very likely truly a Chinese ICBM launch meant to intimidate us, and set us straight on our economic policy. The Missile launch was one year to the day after a Chinese submarine surfaced next to one of our battleships in the Pacific.
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/11/missile-fired-off-california-coast-on-same-day-that-chinese-sub-appeared-in-us-carrier-group/
It's pretty clear China means to send us a message. I think China has figured out that we've fucked them over and then pulled the wool out from underneath us, and now they are going to try to scare us. Good luck with that.
But, the problem is, the message is too late. We've already delivered a mortal blow, and now we are draining their blood into a pail to feed to the Jihadis.
As the Chinese proverb goes, we are living in interesting times.