The Return

I am back and it has been a while. I was busy and then exhausted. Now, I am better, not that I was too bad to begin with. Where was I from when we lasted chatted, er when I lasted dictated?

I must have gone on about barbecues, frozen burgers and alcohol not mixing. I mean there were no fireworks issues there.

I am quite sure that I had something to say, and it may have been funny, but the exhaustion took it away.....well away. Now, all I see are dead people, or is that death and grief and sorrow and murder.....or is that just North Korea.

It appears that Kim Jong Il has taken leave of his senses, or what ever senses he had. He is now playing a dangerous game of chicken with the world. Testing nukes, launching missiles, it is as if he had one hell of a stroke and part of his brain was damaged. That is the part that made him realize he could get more by being annoying with his nukes and then launching his country into a clear oblivion. Somehow, and it could be due to brain damage from his stroke, he has taken a more belicose path.

The problem is that his is a tiny nation and could be easily taken out. There would be collateral damage, mainly refugees overrunning the Chinese border, not to mention the threat to South Korea and an assured North Korean scorched earth policy. As I have said before, the people of North Korea, notwithstanding their lives, do not have much of anything to lose, as they have nothing and barely enough food. The real losers would be the North Korean powerbrokers and regime as they would be hunted down and the party would be over fairly quickly. They would leave a shit load of damage in their wake, human and otherwise.

You are looking at War Crimes trials, too. I cannot see them wanting to go there. They have too much to lose. They live a good life at the expense of the general population. People who had the misfortune of being born above the 38th parallel so they lost that little geography lottery. They got the prize of some sort of indentured servitude to a State and the family Kim.

I guess that there is nothing funny about that.

Enough of this screed, I hope to be back real soon, like tomorrow. Ciao!