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North Korea,
Iran & Pakistan Nukes
and American Responses
by
Gaurang Bhatt, MD
 North Korea is a terrible
regime which deprives its citizens of freedom and doesn�t care if they
starve to death. That doesn�t change the other truths that South Korea
has a larger population, a more advanced economy and is fully capable of
defending itself from any mad onslaught from the north. It is the
relentless hostility of the US, with its penchant for preemptive wars
and obsession with regime change and perverse interference in the
affairs of other nations that pushes North Korea and Iran to exercise
the nuclear option.
The world would be a
better place with no nation having nuclear weapons but the permanent
five have done nothing to fulfill their obligations to the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty. No nation is going to pay the slightest
attention to the hypocritical preaching of a nation with a long record
of war crimes and a history of using nuclear weapons against a
non-nuclear state.
The usual worries proclaimed publicly are that Kim Jong Il is trying to
ensure the dynastic succession of his son by thumbing his nose at the US
and that he could sell or gift the bomb to highest bidders including
non-state terrorists. As usual all US power elite try to instill fear in
its multiply challenged electorate to hide their redistribution of
wealth to their rich supporters and divert the attention of the
electorate from current more pressing economic and other problems. Even
if one were to admit that the North Korean leader is irrational, which
is not the case in how he made a fool of Bush, he is certainly more
intelligent, less irrational or ethically challenged than Reagan or the
shrub. It is highly unlikely that he would give or barter his bomb after
a simple, unequivocal and calm warning that at the slightest hint of
such an event, he would face massive nuclear retaliation. That stick and
a carrot of direct face to face talks with reasonable aid without the
Kabuki dance of six party shenanigans and loud threats without the
ability or intention of anything concretely deliverable, may achieve
more. At least it would prevent China from making a fool out of the US,
just as the Pakistani military and ISI have been doing for ten years at
cost of tens of billions of dollars and American casualties in
Afghanistan.
The real reason for US troop presence in South Korea and Japan is to
prevent them from going nuclear and exiting from the American orbit. The
natural consequence of those would be loss of support for the US dollar
and its role as the main reserve currency, with the two refusing to
finance American debt and profligacy. Unfortunately the stupid follies
of the US are bringing about the bad results nevertheless. The Korean
national pension fund has announced that it will not buy US treasuries.
China has stopped buying long term US government bonds and US agency
paper. Even Germany has demanded that its gold reserves be flown back to
Germany from Fort Knox. There is considerable ill will even in South
Korea and Okinawa, Japan towards the US, as polls show.
Iran has suffered greatly from interference by Britain and the US in its
internal affairs, ranging from sabotaging its democratic experiments in
1906 and 1953 and exploitation of its oil and oil workers. Iran is not
innocent and committed the crime of holding American diplomats hostage
for which the US goaded Saddam to attack it and helped Saddam with
battle information and shooting down an Iranian civil passenger plane.
Once again the current hue and cry against Iranian uranium enrichment is
not only without the support of laws or treaties. During the Shah
regime, the US encouraged and trained Iranians in nuclear technology and
agreed to provide it with nuclear plants. Now that current Iranian
regime is hostile it has naturally changed to opposing it. The real
reason for the pathological opposition is that it would break Israel�s
monopoly on nuclear arms in the Middle East, increase Iranian hegemony
and decrease that of the US. Once again the accusation that the Iranian
regime is irrational and suicidal is used to divert public attention
from truth and reality. More importantly Saudi Arabia may opt for
nuclear arms and thus exit the US orbit and follow an independent
foreign and economic policy, unwilling to increase the world oil
production at US convenience and reduce financing of US debt.
Debtors are often placed in difficult circumstances and have to
acquiesce to terms not in their interest. Saudi Arabia is the cancer
that spreads terrorism by proselytizing radical Islam, finances the
extremists and the hotbed madrassas that spawn them and was the main
source of 9-11 terrorists, yet the US with its mendicant condition
cannot criticize Saudi Arabia. Pakistan also is a basket case debtor. It
obtained nuclear weapons by theft and clandestine means and has traded
them to Libya, Iran and North Korea for cash and missile technology. The
US turned a blind eye to this illicit proliferation for punishing the
Soviets with their Vietnam in Afghanistan. Even worse, it partially and
not definitely inadvertently funded the terrorists and Pakistani nukes
which have now become blowbacks. It still continues to fund the
Pakistani military to the tune of billions each year.
To avoid losing in Afghanistan and with futile hopes of using an
Afghanistan victory to dominate the energy resources of Central Asian
states, it is locked in a damaging liaison with Pakistan. Debtor
Pakistan, desperate for a monetary fix, is compelled to make war on its
own citizens which will eventually result in secession of the NWFP into
Pakhtunistan and the Baluchi province into a new nation, just as it
happened when it made war on its own people in East Pakistan, which
resulted in the birth of Bangladesh. The Taliban are crazy fanatics but
their creators were Bhutto, Pakistani ISI, US and Saudi Arabia and
America.
They have risen from the ashes due to America�s asinine promotion of
criminal warlords and the corrupt Karzai government, siphoning off US
aid to vested interests without any reconstruction in Afghanistan and
indiscriminate US aerial bombings. Lack of adequate troops, funding,
patience, perseverance and time America will lose in Afghanistan. Then a
fearful US worried about the Pak nukes will try to take them out with
Israeli or maybe even Indian help. Mr. Ten Percent, the president of
Pakistan, who bribed some American expert to certify that he was
demented, to escape prosecution in Pakistan from his nemesis Musharraf,
will escape with him to the US and they will both become roommates in an
American asylum, run by Bush and Cheney, the managing inmates.
May 31,
2009
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