Why should I care about Korea?

You see, I'm of the belief that President George W. Bush, the first president I voted for during the 2000 election cycle, though I really was pulling for Senator John McCain at that time, became president since he was a likeable figure thought to be not different than the average American (Though, former President Gore's likeability issue and disgraced activist Ralph Nader probably also had something to do with it), but yet, then Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. and a tutor of George W. Bush's answers precisely why the U.S. should care and in a very concise manner too.

If the U.S. probably had a very public debate about fighting another Korean War, then I doubt U.S. public opinion would support it at all (meaning if another war did break out then I'd think another Republican would get elected to office, probably not too unlike that of, let's say, another President Eisenhower). Why else would both Republican and Democratic administrations --except for the first Clinton administration, oddly enough -- be so willing to accomodate North Korea? (George W. Bush's first administration doesn't count. During his first administration, there really was no U.S. policy towards North Korea -- I'd suggest reading "The Long Road To Pyongyang" (Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2007).

We do see relatively eye to eye on many things, but on the one thing, we won’t; that being the “natual order of things”. I would welcome the chance to really explain why, at my core, I find Communism to be so repugnant to innate human values, and so opposed to what I see as the natural order of things, that I simply cannot ever accept that its ascendancy ought to be welcomed - or even begrudgingly accepted - as part of the natural order of things. But that would lead this thread far off the point, and will have to wait.

But that would lead this thread far off the point, and will have to wait.

Actually, communism is the point. North Korea is an avowed communist state and that is exactly the reason we have to care what happens in that wretchedly poor country.

While major portions of the populace starve under the dictatorship of the proletariat, the state's communist central production planning committee pours resources into weapons and nuclear programs. To what end? The answer to that question drives the reason we must be concerned.

You are absolutely right that the tenants of communism fly in the face of the long term natural order. Karl Marx popularized the first tenant of communism and its underlying creed, socialism: From each according to his ability, and to each, according to his need/

Unfortunately, outside of the family relationship, or, perhaps, the clan or tribe, human nature drives the creed: To each according to his desires, ability, work ethic and risk tolerance, and from each only that which he is willing to give to achieve his goals. Beyond human nature, the previous statement is a core principle of nature.

However, this core principle of nature, in general, and human nature, in particular, can be distorted over the relative short term by another couple of principles of human nature: greed and lust for power. Unfortunately, these human nature distortions of the general order of nature, can only be countered by threat of force. Ergo, we are back to the point of the thread: why we have to be concerned about North Korea.

of which part? the whole natural order series of posts got started after the original post was interpreted by many that i was a communist...

check the comments on:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2333248/posts

and see, for the original post:
http://northxkorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/id-blame-truman-but-north-korean.html

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