RE: RE: North Korea's Nuclear Test

We need to tell China that if they don't oust Kim Jong-il, we will give nukes to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. That should get their attention.

I don't have any general problems with that idea. The idea of nuclear non-proliferation is silly and, in fact, creates a more unstable situation. It's along the lines of the concealed carry permits and goes back to whoever said, "An armed society is a polite society." If everyone has nuclear weapons, then their use for tyrannical leverage is nullified.

Unfortunately, none of our political hierarchy has the stones to pull something like that off. Those kinds of skills are dying out with Reagan's generation of pols. And that is a problem in itself. It means that any strategy involving confrontation with the PRC becomes that much more dangerous. If you're going to spit in China's eye, you better be prepared to back it up with your fists. We don't do that any more. We find enemies that will fold like a cheap suit so we can get on to the "humanitarian" part of the war. China would prove a far more implacable enemy than Soviet Russia was. After all, they have about ten millennia of experience in both diplomacy and warfare.