By Big Al Some American “experts” say bomb North Korea now. Is that really a sane action?
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Bomb North Korea?
The Banality of Evil
Dear Friends of the Ron Paul Institute:
Dr. Paul and I were pretty happy to be able to do a good news story for our Liberty Report on Tuesday. The North and South Koreans met near the DMZ for some 12 hours and agreed on four very important points: First, the North would send a team to South Korea to participate in the Winter Olympics next month. A high-level delegation from the North would accompany the team and the South would allow them to enter even if the individuals were under sanctions. The two Koreas also agreed to follow up with bilateral talks with the aim of relieving military tensions on the Korean peninsula. Third, the two countries agreed to resolve “national problems on our own,” which sounds like a statement addressed to Washington. Finally, they agreed to resume temporary reunions of families separated by war.
Just days before the meeting, US Defense Secretary James Mattis told the press that the North/South discussions would be about participation in the Olympics and nothing else. “This is the sum total of subjects that are going to be discussed,” he said. He spoke with the South Korean defense minister before the North/South meeting and released a read-out of the call stating that the US and South Korea “recognized the dangers of North Korea’s reckless behavior.”
But by all accounts, Mattis got it wrong. South Korea did not limit its discussion with the North to simply Olympic sport nor did South Korea’s post-meeting statement make mention of “reckless behavior” by the North. In fact, the China People’s Daily newspaper announced today that the North Korean Olympic team intends to march into the Olympics together with the South Korean team — a symbolic yet dramatic development that is hard to ignore for those of us who could never have imagined the two Germanys ever reunifying.
As we remarked on our program, it increasingly appears that Washington’s bullying tone and recalcitrant demands that North Korea concede all the cards it holds before being allowed to sit down at the table has rendered the US strangely irrelevant to the whole process. This is similar to US irrelevance in post-ISIS Syria, as years of blockheaded demands that “Assad must go” have eliminated the US from any meaningful role in the political resolution of what remains of the Syrian crisis. Stomping on the ground making demands turns out to be ineffective when facts on the ground cannot be manipulated by sheer will (and arming of jihadist armies to push the point).
Similarly, the US has become much less relevant in the Israel/Palestinian conflict after President Trump’s decision to infuriate the rest of the world and move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
These are all very good things. The more the …read more
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