How would you like someone telling you what follows? I've
been watching you for twenty-five years doing this thing the wrong way. Now
that you've fallen on your face, let me tell you how you can do it the right way.
You'd tell him to take a hike; would you not? Well, that's
what America
needs to say to the likes of Robert Joseph who wrote: “The North Korean Nuclear
Threat, and How to Address it,” an article that was published on July 3, 2017
in National Review Online. Clearly, the man is telling America to make a fool of itself.
Here is what Joseph says at the start of his article: “The
Bush policy failed, the Obama policy failed, and there is no evidence to
suggest that the emerging Trump policy will yield any different result.” And
here is how he ends the article: “Twenty-five years of failed policy makes
clear regime change is a prerequisite to ending the North Korean nuclear and
missile program.” The trouble is that he doesn't say change the regime with what
or with whom. And he doesn't say what will happen during the process of
changing the regime. Will the move happen smoothly? Or will there be such
upheaval as to trigger what is most feared about North Korea 's nuclear arsenal?
This is not the first time someone has suggested a reversal
of thinking with regard to the Korean issue. It happened previously as Joseph
himself points out; but the reversal did not work. Here is what he says in that
regard: “Ten years ago, the Bush administration reversed policy on North Korea , in
return to what the president himself had declared to be a failed approach under
his predecessor.” So why does Joseph believe his proposed new reversal will
work?
The reality is that all the approaches that were adopted or
suggested up to now, have had one thing in common ... the thing that guaranteed
their failure. It is that they were brooded in the belly of a beast called
double standard. And when you have that deficiency as the basis of a policy you
want other nations to rally around and help you with, you're bound to fail.
Some nations may join the move out of desperation, but they will most certainly
distance themselves from it gradually and quietly as time passes.
Here is how an expression of the double standard sounds
like: “North Korea
is in a race to achieve the development of a nuclear-armed ICBM able to hold
American cities hostage to deter us from coming to the support of our South
Korean ally in the event of conflict on the peninsula. Three presidents have
declared this outcome unacceptable, and have assured us it won't happen.” Have
you detected the double standard?
Why assume at the outset that North Korea is so bad it does what
it does to harm someone innocent rather than it is taking measures to protect
itself? When you add to this inexplicable assumption the notion that you must
punish North Korea
by regime change or by other means to force it to disarm, you tell it and tell
the world that you're the one harboring bad intentions. And that's the best way
to convince your allies they should start distancing themselves from you.
And there is more because there is what gives the American
double standard a racist tinge. It is the country's stance with regard to Israel 's
ambiguity concerning that entity's fictitious nuclear program. Everyone knows
by now that this program is a hoax maintained by Israel
to force America to lie
about it, thus demonstrate to the world how tightly the Jews control America .
Aside from this charade having a juvenile quality, the
double standard highlighted by it takes on a sickening dimension when you
realize that the nations of the Middle East
want their region to be declared nuclear-free. However, despite the fact that
America has threatened Iran with all options being on the table in relation to
its nuclear program, and despite the fact that it is now calling for the Korean
Peninsula to be made nuclear free, America cannot bring itself to being
consistent. That would be to publicly call on Israel
to admit that it has no nuclear weapons, and to accept joining the effort of
keep the Middle East free of nuclear weapons.
How to change this self-defeating mentality and start
behaving in a way that will reassure humanity America is back to seeing the
world and treating everyone in it the way it used to right after the Second
World War?