Korea

You know, the blame game over nukes has always been a farce. Last time it was China, and the Rosenthals were taken down as commies and executed promptly. This time North Korea has laid hold of nukes, and instead of one united front attacking one monolithic enemy, we have a polarized country where the enemy not only is the terrorists abroad, it is also the politicians at the other end of the aisle. In the midst of this wrangling, one conspicuous enemy has been overlooked: every other president since and including Truman. I mean, why couldn't those presidents do something (and suceed-the Republicans are stringent on this point) before the showdown reached nuclear proportions? Before the Korean war, South Korea was excluded from US defense lines against Communists so North Korea and Russia were emboldened to strike there-and did so. The Acheson Declaration that established that perimeter, the president then-Truman-didn't keep the military at maximum, and so when the Korean War began, the US was underprepared at first. Then McArthur was recalled when he wished to escalate the war because Truman was afraid it would go nuclear. Well, North Korea was allowed to exist, and now its nuclear too. So blame Truman. Or who knows, perhaps we should just blame North Korea for getting its nukes because if you think about it, the US is only imagining it can police an entire world at once.

Roman Wolf