The threat of a full scale war in the Korean Peninsula seems as serious as ever, as South Korea continues with its massive live-fire drills again today, with President Lee Myung-bak promising an “unsparing” response if North Korea responded to the drills with any actions of their own.
North Korea, meanwhile, threatened to launch a nuclear war if the massive drilling turned into an attack on them. Both sides appear keen on harsh rhetoric since a brief exchange of fire last month, in which both sides claim the other attacked first.
The Obama Administration condemned North Korea for its comments, insisting it was deliberately provocative. The US has promised to cooperate in whatever measures South Korea takes, including potential attacks.
Despite the administration’s usual condemnation of the North, the reality is that much of the tension over the past week has come from the southern side of the border, with President Lee repeatedly talking about the annexation of North Korea as a near-term goal.
So America is ready to join South Korea in retaliation. This can't be America, the nation that stands up for human rights, freedom and democracy, surely.
When a dog fight gets started, only dogs join in, the dogs of war that is!
Why doesn't America just declare war on the world and be done with it?
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What planet are you living on? The America on this planet could never be described as a "nation that stands up for human rights, freedom and democracy …"
That's what they profess they do. Their actions reflect an entirely different reality.
this is the grand difference between the republicans and the democrats,
the republicans want to start wars unilaterally,
while democrats want to use proxies to start multilateral wars.
China has been urging calm and telling the DPRK (the North) to ignore the provocations of the ROK (South). And the DPRK has been restrained.
The US on the other hand has been joining the ROK "drills," increasingly massive while there are antiwar demonstrations in the ROK, not covered in the US.
The guiding light of US policy is to prevent China from rising any more, from getting any more prosperous. We in the US should understand that the wars in Central Asia, although carried out to obey Israel in part, are overwhelmingly aimed at China, either provoking a war with its neighbors or breaking it up. We do indeed live in a very evil Empire. Human rights and terrorism have nothing to do with these wars and provocations.
Meanwhile it is an unwritten rule on the "Left" including the "Peace and Justice" movement that nothing good is to be said of China, thus playing directly into the hands of the Empire's propaganda war on China.
John V. Walsh