The media flap over North Korea's test launches of missiles is another red herring tossed out by the Bush administration to distract the public from its disastrous policies, both foreign and economic.
As I keep pointing out, the intercontinental missiles armed with nuclear warheads that should be our concern are operational and sitting in silos and aboard submarines in Russia and China. Those countries have more than enough missiles – long ago tested, manufactured and deployed – to obliterate the U.S. Yet serious disarmament talks with these powers are not even on the Bush agenda.
No, the Bush administration chooses to make a public issue out of a nuclear missile program in its infancy that it knows darn well poses no threat to the U.S. In these Alzheimer's times, one has to keep reminding people that deterrence works, just as it worked against the Soviet Union's enormous stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. North Korea is so poor that it would take a lifetime for it to produce enough ICBMs to become a threat to the U.S.
And don't buy that nonsense that the U.S. considered shooting down the North Korean missile with its multibillion-dollar anti-missile system. The U.S. wouldn't dare try, because failure, which is the most likely outcome, would be unbearably embarrassing. . "
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