12 October 2006

How can USA tell North Korea they may not have Nuclear weapons?

The only nation in this world that used nuclear weapons on civilians tells North Korea they must dismantle. Where is the logic in this argument? The USA has more nuclear weapons than anyone else in the world. Yet they tell others like Iran that they may not enrich uranium for their own power stations!

If the USA had a track record of always looking for peaceful means to resolve situations, if the USA had a track record for being the one to give concessions, if the USA had a track record of tolerance and understanding to other nations, then I would have to agree with their stance on North Korea. But the exact opposite is true. The USA has been the biggest aggressor and responsible for the largest troop movements and invasion in recent history. The USA ignored UN resolutions and invaded Iraq, destroying buildings and infrastructure, killing countless civilians in long range missile attacks and aircraft bombings.

This same nation stands up to speak against North Korea’s nuclear testing, while they themselves used depleted uranium in its ammunition during the invasion on Iraq. This will leave a legacy of illness and diseases in that land for many years and generations to come. Yet this same nation tells Iran and North Korea they need to dismantle.

Building nuclear weapons are awful and indiscriminately destructive things. To build these weapons and to store those means it could be used in the future, or even worse. A situation by evil men could be created to justify the use of them.

We don’t have to look to far back in history to look for an example of a nation, getting (making) an excuse to use nuclear bombs on civilians citizens in Japan. Yet this same nation doing this evil deed can tell others to dismantle their nuclear capabilities. They won’t dismantle their own nuclear arsenal as an example to the rest of the world. In fact the opposite is happening. Now talks of developing new, smaller nuclear weapons are happening and this is said to be used in the fight on “terrorism”!

Why is the USA silent on other nations developing and storing nuclear weapons? Why is Israel allowed to have their nuclear arsenal while Iran may not? Why can India develop nuclear technology, while North Korea may not?

This world has become a far more dangerous place to live in recently. Everyone said the cold war was living on the dangerous edge of extinction. I am scared that some evil men decide to create a scenario to justify using their nuclear weapons on more civilian people and then call it the fight upon “terrorism”! They will need to justify spending Billions on these destructive weapons instead of using that same money to create a better place for their citizens.

This is the reason why these politicians need to make sure we belief their stories that there is evil out there. They need to keep reminding us that terrorism is the new unknown enemy out there. They need to keep on creating scenarios to remind us that we need their protection, their surveillance and their nuclear weapons. So we will most likely hear more stories of airport closures because of security threats, more incredible stories where planes and fires can bring down 3 tall buildings that were designed to stay intact for just such an accident in the first place. Even worse, we might hear of a fabricated story where “terrorists” have detonated a nuclear weapon at a city. I hope I am wrong!

1 comment:

Peter said...

Hi Ian, neo hopping and found your site. Very interesting and thought provoking. Greetings from NZ.