Thanks for asking John. Make yourself comfortable. Get a nice cup of tea and I'll give you the short version:
<Well whats your solution to North Korea? >
Firstly, hold the UN Reconstitution Conference in Baghdad. Hand Iraq over to the UN to run as a protectorate, using the oil to fund Iraq's development and also to fund UN security.
Some of Saddam's palaces are probably suitable for the purpose and could act as regional headquarters for the UN, or even world headquarters. It's time to move out of Noo Yawk. Some people in New York wouldn't be sad to see the back of them and their parking antics.
The UN WWII Victors' Club constitution is out of date. France having as much say as India is absurd, for example. Japan, which has a big load of money and over 100 million people should also be better represented. To have Japan as a second or third fiddle to France or Britain is ridiculous.
There's a lot needs sorting out to get the UN into the right form to suit the 21st century. There are a lot of border and commons property issues to be dealt with. There are human rights issues and crimes against humanity issues. The right of all humans to a bit of habeas corpus mightn't go amiss either. Olde Englische basic freedoms should be enshrined.
Then, North Korea will cease to look like much of a problem. The reason to have nukes is to blow somebody up. When there few reasons to have nukes, the desire to have them will dwindle. Sure, the Ozzies and Yanks could nuke me right now, but then they'd have one less customer and it would disrupt some other stuff too. So they haven't got much desire to do it.
Canada doesn't live in fear of the USA. They aren't building nukes to defend themselves. If there's no military need, there's no need to produce military people and hardware and software and biowarfare agents.
Protecting property rights and individual freedom is the way to avoid the need for military services. With a dwindling human population over the next century, there's going to be less and less demand for killing opponents. The eons-old fight for territory and resources in a world of scarcity, famine and burgeoning populations in social hierarchies of alpha, beta and gamma males will be a study for historians.
The next war is already on us. Politicians and soldiers always fight the last war and are surprised at what arrives. The next one is It and Buddies versus We the Sheeple. I plan on being one of the Buddies. Nukes and USS Ronald Raygun are useless against It.
The first thing It and Buddies will do is invade North Korea. South Korea is the leader of the Buddies and has already offered tempting morsels of CDMA2000 phragmented photon cyberspace to North Korea. They'll take the bait. The enervating suffusion of pixelated peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love will magically change North Korea in a similar way to the change of The Beast in Beauty and the Beast to a handsome, charming prince.
North Koreans are just people. They aren't some Mongol horde waiting to rampage across the steppes again. They want a nice life, girls, CDMA2000 cyberphones, food, fun and all that good stuff.
In a single generation, they can come from the cold dark heart of totalitarianism to a blossoming land of freedom. More so than those of us who have enjoyed it for so long we hardly remember that our ancestors had serious difficulty in getting that freedom. They'll have the enthusiasm of the recent convert and the nouveau riche. Before you know it, they'll be lecturing the USA about freedom and stuff.
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