Monday, October 16, 2006

John Howard on the North-Korean nuclear threat..:

Interesting talks.. Prime Minister John Howard talks about North Korean nuclear test. I have put a link for you all in the title of this post so you can watch the video of this interview, so I won’t go into too much detail. I only wish to discuss this interview on a few points:

Question: We have troops in Iraq because we believed Iraq had weapons of Mass Destruction. North Korea proudly boasts it has Weapons of Mass Destruction, could we have troops in North Korea?

Answer: Well I don't think we should be talking about invading North Korea. We should try very had to solve this diplomatically. You never take military action off the table, but it's not something the Americans are contemplating. I spoke to President Bush last night and they are not talking about an invasion of North Korea. They are trying to get the maximum world pressure..

So what is he talking about here? First of all, the man has no opinion of his own. More than half of his answer was "what the Americans said" and not what 'he thinks'. I mean is it not bad enough that we invaded one country ruled by a torturous, pointless and irrational dictator who the governments wrongfully thought may have weapons of mass destruction.. but we won’t contemplate disarming a second country ruled by an equally me torturous, pointless and irrational dictator who openly boasts of having a nuclear weapon? But nah.. to make things worse, we had to have a prime minister who has no idea whatsoever. He has no policy of his own about Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran or North-Korea. Ever since 9/11, we've repeatedly seen John Howard chant whatever is said by Bush or Blair. So Mr. Howard borrows policies from UK and US, and burries his efforts and that of his nation in those of UK and US.

The question of why we don’t treat North-Korean president the same way we treated Iraq if not any harshly after this Nuclear test remains. But then again.. I've already discussed the double standards in world politics in my last post so we’ll let that issue rest today..!

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