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Salient political commentary

From Toothpaste for Dinner:

The little dictator who could

It seems no small irony that it is Kim Jong-Il who looks set to be the only member of the axis of evil who is not directly in the crosshairs of Uncle Sam.

- Iraq cooperated with weapons inspections to a reasonable* extent and despite the reports of
Hans Blix and others saying that their weapons program had been dismantled was still attacked due to it's possession of WMDS. Which were never found.

- Iran's president has been reasonably up-front about the state of their weapons program announcing loudly that yes, they were enriching uranium but no, they had no bombs. American spies have now come through with the shocking discovery that this was true. The US government response, rather counter-intuitively perhaps, is to essentially threaten military action just to make sure.

- In North Korea lil' Kim sends a couple of ICBMs flying over Japan, taunts the USA with the delivery systems it is designing for it's nukes. He's only one step from hosting his own Hello! world exclusive in one of the factories where he gently and fondly pats the bombs whilst extolling their weight, uranium content and possible destinations. He then offers to stop his program if sanctions are lifted and he can sit at the table with the big boys. And it works.

HE IS CLEARLY A GENIUS.





* No they didn't make it easy. But then again, when so much of the rest of the world (France, USA, Israel etc) is 'allowed' to have nukes it's rather impressive that they capitulated at all.