A way out of the North Korea crisis - the Chad Doctrine
Yesterday North Korea launched 7 missles, one of them an ill-fated ICBM that blew up 45 seconds after launch. Today South Korea announced that North Korea is readying more missles for launch, at the same time a UN Security Council resolution introduced by Japan was blocked by Russia and China.
This is the latest in a “crisis” that has been building since North Korea announced it had started building Nuclear Bombs despite a 1994 deal negotiated by former President Jimmy Carter and formalized by the administration of former President Bill Clinton.
Ironically until now it is members of the Clinton administration that have been the most hawkish in their proposed solution to the North Korea crisis, probably because they are trying to clean up their mess. I am going to change that now with the proposed “Chad Doctrine”.
The “Chad Doctrine” is simple since Russia and China consistently oppose our efforts in the UN (voted against us in Iraq, voting against us on Iran, voting against us on North Korea) we will hold them responsible. If any country anywhere uses a WMD we will nuke Moscow and Bejing. If North Korea launches an ICBM that hits US or allied territory we will nuke Moscow and Bejing. It’s that simple.
I know this won’t be a popular idea but I bet it would work.
Update: 7/6/06 - Positive side effects of the “Chad Doctrine” include:
a. alleviation of the Global Warming problem by injecting particulate matter into the atmosphere bringing about Global Dimming / Nuclear Winter.
b. cause a decrease in crude oil prices due to a decreased international demand.
Additionally the New York Times reports that Ambassador John Bolton
has apparently adopted a similar tack in dealing with this issue:
“The United States ambassador to the United Nations, John R. Bolton, said before the meeting today that countries that have “leverage” with North Korea ‘bear the responsibility to use that.’ “
While stopping short of adding the much needed “or we will melt your faces”, I think that is implied, and therefore I would like to welcome Ambassador Bolton to the ranks of loyal Independent Sources readers. Feel free to ask for advice in the comments section Mr. Ambassador.
Update #2 7/6/06: The Belmont Club has a fairly interesting conversation going on about why the North Korean ICBM failed. take a look at this wikipedia article first.
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July 6th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Your plan just might work. It worked ok during the cold war but it is a pretty big gamble to take over a punk country like North Korea. I would prefer to see an accident happen at their nuke facility. It seems to me that we could encourage the South Koreans, since they have the most to lose, to pony up some special operatives to arrange an accident. It would have be a whole hog operation though, a politically correct pinpoint accident would be too obvious.
I’ve been trying to pick you out of the picture of the IS crew. Are you the one sitting next to the lady?
Chuck
July 6th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
I’m not telling
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