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October 18, 2002
North Korea
North Korea
We watched the last few minutes of an interview of Ms. Rice by Mr. Ted "This Doesn't Really Look Like a Bad Toupee" Koppel last night. She continues to impress, cool, calm and collected as always. Ol' Teddie kept pressuring her about North Korea and its likely nuclear weapons. But she just kept patiently repeating that the President was looking at his options re dealing with them. (Though my husband said judging from the twinkle in her eye that she was laughing at him inside. Well, sure, weren't we all?)The news about North Korea & nuclear weapons worries me, especially since after Thanksgiving my son will be stationed relatively close by in Japan. My dad fought in Korea years ago, and though he doesn't talk about it much, he does say that "they" should've let McArthur finish them off. (He also says that they couldn't keep a camp dog, especially if it was white, cuz the Koreans would steal it & eat it. They thought white dogs tasted better.) He doesn't have much use for draft dodgers, saying his country told him to go, so he did his duty & went, even though he really didn't want to go. Not a Clinton supporter, and a pretty wise man, my Pops. But he made it back mostly in one piece, even though while sweeping a mine field, his buddy found one... the hard way. Pops lost a eye, and it left a little shrapnel in his knee (and 5 brownie points to the first one to correctly identify those lyrics), but he does pretty well. Just had his 72nd birthday, and spent it brush-hogging on the farm. So I keep telling myself that my boy will make it home ok too.
But I digress. What we will do about North Korea remains to be seen. Seems to me that North & South Korea have, so far, been a lot like India & Pakistan... they bow up and woof at each other from time to time, but neither are too anxious to take that first swing. Kinda like a bar fight where Billy Badass gets into some other pseudo-tough guy's face & they're each making those hollow threats..."If these boys weren't holdin' me back, I'd kick your ass." "Hold me back boys, I'm gonna kill 'im iffen I gets loose." You know, where it's all about saving face and putting up a front, and there's no real intent to actually fight so long as no one pushes it too far. I think for now at least, Iraq poses a much bigger threat.
It's like my daddy always said, "It ain't the barking dog that you have to worry about. It's that sneaky one that don't bark that'll slip up behing you and bite you every time."
Posted by Rita at October 18, 2002 02:20 PM