NoKo NoGo

"What will it take to wake up the West?" asks National Review's Stanley Kurtz. Well, you can't wake if you're still dreaming it's all Bush's fault or penning pro-Dem propaganda for the MSM, like Glenn Kessler's doozy from Monday's Washington Post:

North Korea's apparent nuclear test last night may well be regarded as a failure of the Bush administration's nuclear nonproliferation policy.

Since George W. Bush became president, North Korea has restarted its nuclear reactor and increased its stock of weapons-grade plutonium, so it may now have enough for 10 or 11 weapons, compared with one or two when Bush took office.

Since Bush took office, Pluto was de-planetized, but don't blame John Bolton. Rather, Clinton's 1994 Framework agreement caused the current mess. So much for both bilateral and multilateral agreements. Though it's unfair to expect American lefties to know their enemy when they don't even know their troops.

Unfortunately, neither South Korea nor China will "go the distance" to stop the "ill" Kim claiming North Koreans "are making a great leap forward in the building of a great, prosperous, powerful socialist nation" by building nukes. Especially when America's enemies cheer and self-styled "progressives" forget that the "law of large numbers" -- and its application to elections via the "median voter theory" -- strongly suggest democracies, rather than dictatorships, are more trustworthy stewards of nuclear arms--and safer for their citizens.

How should the world react? Let the United Nations adopt whatever crippled critique China allows. The real response comes from America and Japan:

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suspends Article 9 of Douglas MacArthur's "pacifist" constitution;



2. Bush Fed-Xes fifty armed ICBMs to Tokyo;



3. Broadcast live on TV, Abe-san points them at Pyongyang.

As John at OpFor says, "Let the arms race begin." I guarantee better results than another visit by ex-President Goober.