Bad Moon Rising

The world is a dangerous place. That's nothing really new to anyone with half a brain and it's always been that way. I don't see every man, woman and child holding hands and singing "Kumbaya" any time soon but it seems to me like a lot of seeming separate actions by various nations are starting to produce a very vivid and extremely frightening picture.

I'm not trying be some kind of fear-monger screaming "Repent! The end is extremely fucking nigh!" either. I'm just rather concerned about a confluence of many events and feel like speaking my mind about it. It's still a free country, is it not?

Earlier today a story broke regarding our friends the North Koreans and their very sane and rational leader, Kim Jong-Il.(Did that come off sarcastic enough?). This may need to be taken with a grain of salt because Lil Kim Jong is bat shit crazy and all but I don't think it's wise to completely write it off as the usual crazy rhetoric either. What was said today (actually yesterday) is that North Korea believes that it is no longer bound by the cease-fire agreement that ended the Korean War because of some U.S./South Korea military drills that are scheduled to take place in a few days In response, North Korea will begin to increase it's nuclear arsenal. Isn't that grand?

Crazy Kim believes that these drill are simply a ruse and that the U.S. and South Korea are gearing up for an invasion. Never mind that these drill are a regular occurrence in South Korea and we've never invaded before. All the previous drills were obviously part of an elaborate plan to lull the North Koreans into a false sense of security so we could just pretend to be running some standard military drills and then BAM! We invade and kill all those mother fuckers. I guess the plan's off guys. They're on to us.

Now, by itself, this would just seem to be yet another instance of Crazy Kim rattling his sabre and saying "Look at me, look at me!". That could very well be the case this time but you need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Kim Jong-Il is not in the best of health lately and, this is pure speculation on my part, he may want to go out with a big bang before one of his sons, the youngest one I believe, takes his place.

Then you've got Iran. They recently stepped up their own nuke program and President Ahmadinejad announced it in the ironically named Freedom Square in Tehran on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Of course they say they're only doing it so they can have nuclear energy you know? It's completely innocent. Never mind that their President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a crazy Twelver who believes if you throw the world into a chaotic state of perpetual war you'll hasten the second coming of Mohammad and get your seventy-two virgins in the afterlife. He sounds like a pretty trustworthy guy if you ask me so I wouldn't worry about Iran too much if I were you.

Enter Israel. Iran doesn't really get along with Israel too much. As a matter of fact, every single Muslim country in the Middle East would love nothing more than to wipe Israel and all of its people off the map entirely. Remember that Ahmadinejad guy? He believes that Holocaust was simply a fabrication to allow the foundation of the free state of Israel and also denies that Israel even has a right to exist. Something makes me say that the first thing that Iran would do if it possessed a nuclear weapon would be to enjoy the sight of a nice, big mushroom cloud rising over the city of Tel Aviv.

Israel is the only functioning free democracy in the Middle East and probably our staunchest ally after England. Though it seems like President Obama is hell-bent on throwing them under the bus lately, we would have no choice but to retaliate if Iran attacked Israel. Nukes or not, we'd have to do something and I'm not talking about U.N. sanctions either. That would be the start of WWIII any way you slice it.

Finally we come to Russia. I don't know if it's because I had to hide underneath my desk for air raid drill when I was in grade school during the Cold War but I've never been able to completely trust the Russians. Maybe it's because of too many James Bond movies, who knows? They're always up to some shady shit in my opinion and I simply think the U.S. needs to keep a close eye on them.

The Cold War never ended as far as I'm concerned. It just went underground. It's no surprise that in 1992 (after the "official" end of the Cold War), when we invaded Iraq, a lot of Russian arms, intelligence and funding flooded into that country. They were trying to do to us what we did to them in the late 70's early 80's when Russia invaded Afghanistan. Hell, Russia and China funded the shit out of the NVA in Vietnam and bogged us down in that jungle hellhole for so many years that it nearly tore this great country apart. Shit, I can be argued that it did. Why the fuck should we trust them?

Sorry if I seem to be ranting a little more than usual but this is a topic I have a lot of passion for.

When George W. Bush was President none of the aforementioned countries would have pulled this kind of shit so blatantly. Our enemies may not have respected us but they sure as shit were afraid of us. I don't care if I sound like an evil bastard when I say this but in situations like this I'll take my enemy's fear over their respect any day. President Obama tries to be respected by the shit-bag leaders of these third world hell holes but doesn't seem to realize that they will always hate him for the simple fact that he's an American. (That's right, I'm saying Barack Hussein Obama was born in America. Fuck you, Birthers)

America, and the whole world for that matter, would be a lot better off if President Obama finally grew a pair and invoked the fear of God in our enemies. You can try to hold out the olive branch at first, but if they continue to step out of line you sometimes have to beat the ever loving snot out of them with it.

I thank you for you time and apologize for any typos.

P.S. In a completely unrelated side-note: I've officially lost all respect for Dennis Kucinich. We never really saw eye to eye politically but I always thought he was a man of principle. Plus I loved the fact that he carried around a copy of the U.S. Constitution with him everywhere he went. Now, I think he can jump off a cliff as long as he gives his Constitution to a bystander before jumping. He sold out his supporters by voting for the Health Care Bill shortly after signing a pledge of some sort saying he would never vote for any bill that didn't contain a robust public option. He either sold out or Obama informed him what a lot of people already suspect and that is that the Health Care Bill than was recently passed is just the first step to Universal Health Care. Not a Trojan Horse, but hiding in plain sight. It's much more devious that way. I thank you again for your patronage to my wonderful, rant-filled blog. I hope I didn't scare you too bad this time.