Re: USA/Bagdad...USA/South-Korea... brinksmanship

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 19:57:30 MST


--- "Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc." <megao@sk.sympatico.ca>
wrote:
> Read the piece about the USA/Iraq vs Iran history of the 80's vs the
> swithchback/backfire of the 2000's
>
> So maybe there is truth when Osama said the chickens were coming
> back to roost in relation to 911.
>
> A question to pose today is whether a similar relationship with
> Korea's
> nuclear program as a ploy to deal with some perceived menace from
> China/East-Asia or the middle-East could some day come back to bite
> us all.
>
> When you play with fire you always risk getting burned.
> What is apalling is how much of civilization's productive capacity is
> devoted to self-destruction.

I don't recall that at any time the US aided North Korea's nuclear
weapons program, or has seen the North as any sort of offset to a China
menace. To claim that there has been sounds like more Jeff Davis-type Chomsky-ganda.

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