Rockets for the Fourth!
Thursday, June 25th, 2009I haven’t mentioned politics in a long time. So long, in fact, that the white vans have stopped circling the house, and I hardly ever get strip-searched in airports anymore.
Frankly, I miss the attention, thus this post.
North Korea is aiming their homebrew ICBMS at Hawaii and threatening to launch them on the 4th if everyone doesn’t stop talking about Iran and make North Korea the center of attention instead. We’ve sent an unspecified number of unspecified vessels to an unspecified location and made very non-specific statements regarding what might or might not happen if anything bigger than a bottle rocket leaves North Korean airspace anytime soon.
This must have been very disappointing to the North Korean Board of Belligerent News Releases, who’ve been poised for weeks to declare total war on somebody, anybody — the US, Great Britain, Nickelodeon, Overstock.com, heck, even the cast of ‘Seinfeld.’ They’re just ready to fight. It’s almost as if the entire nation just spent a few weeks doing meth and playing Grand Theft Auto IV. What they need is a nap and some vegetables.
In a way, the North Koreans are almost cute when they wave their science-fair rockets at us and pretend they can hit anything smaller than the Pacific Ocean at more than a hundred yards.
I said almost cute. Because if they do launch anything toward Hawaii, the very least that will happen is that we’ll shoot it down. Which won’t be a big problem, in and of itself.
Because we might also decide to take out the launch facility. Or two. And that might cause the NKs to freak, and do something monumentally stupid, like take a whack at South Korea.
And that might very well make the current mess in the Middle East look like a playground dust-up by Mrs. Matheson’s fifth grade math class.
Just a thought to brighten your day.