Friday, March 07, 2003

 

It occurred to me the other day, the seeming barbarians who run North Korea could do us all a HUGE favor, and score brownie points with the civilized world (well, minus the US and UK anyway), by just playing "the Pyongyang gambit" over the next few days, and calling Bush on his "preemptive" bluff.

They could say, "Well, the day the US invades Iraq is the day all the old rules go out the window, and we have to keep up. Therefore, once the shitstorm of gore they laughingly call Shock and Awe begins, we in North Korea assert our OWN right to preemptively strike, if we in our own estimation feel 'threatened.'

"Which we do -- or will, the moment Shock and Awe is launched.

"So we'll THEN strike the United States West Coast. With nukes.

"We're not defending Iraq OR Saddam, per se. We're just defending ourselves -- you know -- preemptively."

If Georgie wants to play geopolitical chess, he ought to think a few steps ahead.

posted by Michael 10:44 PM