The world is waking up this morning with a hangover. The Chinese now face the prospect of a nuclear Japan and Taiwan. Southeast Asia will want to dust off their "friend of America" credentials. India, Japan, Australia will increase their interest in the American SDI program. South Korea will remember the good old days when they were America's number one friend.
Allah was unkind to Iran last night. Their nuclear ambitions were dashed by Nuclear Kim. Europe will realize that they have no choice but to get serious with Iran and with atypical un-European alacrity. Iran's nuclear ambitions went up in smoke somewhere deep in a Korean mine shaft. There will be no Allah akbarring in Teheran.
Poor Hugo Chavez will face an emboldened opposition in Venezuela. His currency will decline as he and his supporters realize America will not tolerate any more of his nonsense.
The Democrats will have to let Foley crawl back into the closet. Oh well. Maybe I should have air brushed Rove in the nuclear cloud. Now listen up Republicans. Listen carefully. Play the Bush "Axis of Evil" speech and the Democratic responses of derison.
There will be a hard look at the countries that aid and abet nuclear proliferation. The Telegraph looks at that this morning:
Russia secretly offered North Korea nuclear technology
By a Special Correspondent in Pyongyang and Michael Hirst
(Filed: 09/07/2006)
"Russia is facing criticism after secretly offering to sell North Korea technology that could help the rogue state to protect its nuclear stockpiles and safeguard weapons secrets from international scrutiny.
Russian officials touted the equipment at an IT exhibition in Pyongyang a fortnight ago - just days before the Communist state caused international alarm by launching a salvo of short and long-range missiles into the Sea of Japan.
In what appear to have been unguarded comments, Aleksei Grigoriev, the deputy director of Russia's Federal Information Technologies Agency, told a reporter that North Korea planned to buy equipment for the safe storage and transportation of nuclear materials, developed by a Russian government-controlled defence company.
The company, Atlas, also received interest from the North Koreans in their security systems and encryption technology - which were kept from display at the exhibition for security reasons.
In remarks made to the Russian Itar-Tass news agency - hastily retracted after publication - Mr Grigoriev said that the main aim of the June 28 exhibition was "establishing contacts with the Korean side and discussing future co-operation". Last week Russia, along with China, opposed a draft UN Security Council resolution, proposed by Japan and backed by America, that would bar missile-related financial and technology transactions with North Korea because of the missile tests.
As tensions over the missile tests mounted, the US government yesterday deployed its USS Mustin, equipped with so-called Aegis missile-tracking technology that is geared towards tracking and shooting down enemy missiles, to Yokosuka, home port to the US Navy's 7th Fleet."...
"...Western experts were not surprised that the two countries might be discussing sensitive military deals.
Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington, said that Russian policy towards North Korea had long been influenced by the desire to restore its Cold War-era influence.
"Russia often seems more ambitious to restore that influence than to play a positive role in international affairs," he said. "We've got no reason to doubt that Moscow is playing a double game with North Korea. It's not entirely surprising considering Vladimir Putin himself came up with the harebrained suggestion some years ago that Moscow, as a protector and provider for the North Korean regime, launch a North Korean satellite."
Mr Eberstadt suggested that any controversial business deals would be politically costly for the Kremlin. "If Moscow wishes to be on the record as the sole defender and apologist for the world's remaining revisionist and nuclear-proliferating regimes, then it would be interesting to see how its European friends would react."
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ReplyDeleteNope! Iran is now emboldened, and so is any country that wishes to defy any efforts at "non-proliferation". In fact, Iran has another source of needed nuclear technology.
They will do this because the "United Nations State of America" has capitulated already!
Will this be good news to awaken everyone? I hope you're right, but I don't think it will.
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ReplyDeleteRussia is reporting that the bomb was larger than first thought, and by the Telegraph article they should know. The sequence of North Korea proving they have the bomb is better than the speculation that they may have the bomb.
ReplyDeleteJapan, Taiwan and South Korea must react.
Russia is being exposed to the Europeans, for what it really is. Nato has to be looked at with new regard.
Tiger,
ReplyDeleteI cannot predict what GWB will do with this opportunity, but it is there.
Tiger,
ReplyDeleteHe's been drinkin some of that Rufus Juice:
Makes the whole World look like it came through Rose Colored Glasses.
Good Stuff.
aka Bud Light.
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I need a Federal Agency to tell me where to Poop.
The outbreaks have sparked demands to create a new federal agency in charge of food safety. Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both New York Democrats, are sponsoring legislation authored by Sen. Richard Durbin (news, bio, voting record), D-Ill., to create the unified Food Safety Agency.
"This recent outbreak must be a wake-up call to get our food safety house in order, because right now it's in pure disarray," Schumer said at his Manhattan office. "We need to have one agency take charge to ensure the next outbreak isn't far worse."
The outbreaks have also devastated the economy of Salinas Valley, the self-proclaimed "Salad Bowl to the World."
Farmers in the area, about 100 miles south of San Francisco, began plowing spinach crops under and laying off workers last month, as government inspectors examined fields and packing houses for the source of the deadly outbreak.
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(The Scoop on the poop is it's them illegal workers livin like Chinamen wherever they can find a place to sleep.
So's we can have cheap food the way our slaver ancestors did.
And So's the contributors and supporters get their just deserts.)
Good thing they sabotaged that fence bill, wouldn't have been "prudent."
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ReplyDeleteit's 6:37 am CST right now--I understand the hour being off on these time stamps, but why the minutes, too?
ReplyDeleteJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is in Seoul for a meeting with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, called the claimed test "unpardonable" and urged the council to take "undaunted" action.
ReplyDeleteThe region was "entering a new, dangerous nuclear age", he said.
He said Japan and the US would step up co-operation on the missile defence system they began after a North Korean missile test in 1998.
Wrong again..."In Europe, the EU said the test was "unacceptable", but it didn't plan to cut humanitarian aid to North Korea."...
ReplyDelete"Japan and USA call for DECISIVE ACTION!"
ReplyDeleteWhat is "decisive action"?
yap, yap, yap - all yap!
ReplyDeleteI'm not from Missouri, but ...
Is it too early to have a cool one?