| | Once again, America has wimped out. After talking big -- as always -- and fooling virtually no one -- as always -- America has put its tail between its legs and whimpered off the international field of play.
Prior to the highly provocative launch of all those July 4th missiles, the United States threatened North Korea mightily not to do so. Or at least we threatened them as mightily as the US government does, nowadays. But the North Korean hyper-dictatorship went ahead and test-fired its high-payload missiles anyway -- and in droves. North Korea also went out of its way to laugh and spit in America's face by sending the missiles skyward on our Independence Day, and within minutes of a Space Shuttle launch.
And what was the United States' response after all of its stern warnings? Nothing. Confusion, vacillation, timidity, and cowardice. Basically just more empty bluster, fooling not a soul on earth.
President Bush fancies himself a swaggering "Texas tiger" and crusading "freedom-fighter." Some tiger and some fighter! Bush is a joke. And so is America, really. In the current battle between freedom and tyranny -- between civilization and savagery -- it's truly amazing and depressing to see just how weak, feckless, and impotent the Good Guys really are.
Unfortunately we can look forward to more of the same when it comes to Iran. However maniacal and out-of-control these hard-line enemies of America are, we can safely anticipate the United States will pretty much do nothing to answer their controlled aggression. Certainly the US won't forthrightly terminate these threats -- or even directly, honestly, properly address them.
It was the same way when communist Russia got the bomb, the same way when communist China did, the same way with Islamicist Pakistan. America simply lacks the ideological self-confidence and interior moral authority to challenge its serious enemies: to vigorously attack and destroy these obvious worldwide evils. This might not be true philosophical and moral bankruptcy -- but it's pretty close.
After World War II -- which devastated almost all of Western civilization -- America vowed "never again!" would it appease a terrible dictatorship, or let it grow immensely powerful and threatening. But in fact the motto of America probably should have been "always and forever!" After the Nazis were finally defeated -- at enormous cost in blood and treasure -- the United States didn't even hesitate to appease the Soviet Union, even though it was three times the population of Germany, and even though it took over a stunning ten or so neighboring countries within just a few years.
When will the United States learn to stop appeasing raw evil? When will the nightmare of diplomacy, dialog, constructive engagement, and peace talks finally end? Probably not in our lifetimes. Living with fatal vulnerability, and in a kind of helpless, defenseless terror is now normal for America.
We did it with Russia, China, and Pakistan. And these horrific evils and threats are still mostly with us. Soon it'll be time for North Korea and Iran. And very possibly a few others will quickly follow.
In every instance we could have nipped the problem in the bud if we had simply attacked at the beginning of the broad-based deadly threat. It would've been almost easy. But instead we kept putting off dealing with these issues via appeasement and "negotiation" until finally it became too late. Most of the Bad Guys got their nuclear weapons many years ago, and we just had to deal with it. North Korea and Iran will evidently soon join the super-powered nuclear club. Then we'll all just have to learn to live with it -- or die with it.
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