Posted on 02/02/2002 7:49:21 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
WASHINGTON: North Korea yesterday blustered that it was on the brink of war with the US after President George W. Bush renewed his attacks on the "axis of evil" of so-called rogue states.
Mr Bush again labelled Iran, Iraq and North Korea the world's most dangerous regimes, warning they could face US action and prompting speculation about where the war on terror would lead after Afghanistan.
His warning, raised first in his State of the Nation address on Tuesday, drew an angry reaction from Muslim countries throughout the Middle East. But the most blunt message response came from North Korea. A spokesman for strongman Kim Jong Il said the nation was ready for war and had been wise to develop "powerful offensive and defensive means". We are sharply watching the disturbing moves of the United States that have pushed the situation to the brink of war," the Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
As the secretive communist regime's propaganda machine went into overdrive, North Korean state media said US warplanes had carried out scores of reconnaissance flights in recent weeks in preparation for an attack. The spokesman said Mr Bush's speech was "little short of declaring a war".
Undaunted by the strength of the reaction in the Middle East to his speech, Mr Bush reiterated his accusations against the three countries and warned that Washington was ready to act. He said all three nations were developing weapons of mass destruction. "They need to know our intention is to hold them accountable and the rest of the world needs to be with us, because these weapons can be pointed at them as easily as at us," he said. Iran, which Washington describes as the main state sponsor of terror ism, called Mr Bush -thirsty for human blood", while the Iraqi regime of Sad Hussein branded him "stupid, arrogant and irresponsible".
Former secretary o state Madeleine Albrigh also condemned the "axis of evil" speech, calling it "big mistake". She said many in the international community believed the US h "lost its mind" because of the way Mr Bush handled foreign policy. "I think it was a big mistake to lump those three countries together," she said. "They are very different from each other." That warning risked alienating foreign allies she said. We know that they are (already) not supportive of what we are doing in lraq or Iran or North Korea, so I don't know what the value is." But US officials said there were no plans for, any military action against the three countries. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the US was not about to open three more fronts in the war against terror now centred on Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, in New York, US Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday urged world leaders to crush the cause of terrorism by stamping out poverty. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Mr Powell said' We have to go after poverty, we have to go after despair." AFP
I have thought that exact same thing so many times.
The critics called it drivel and basically slammed every aspect of his book, but I thought allot of it was brilliant and incredibly insightful. Especially for someone of such limited means, and to this day I hear people on both sides of the political isle repackaging these same observations and ideas as new, but Hitler wrote them in the 30's
(I don't mean to imply plagiarism or anything, I think allot of them are just simple truths that can't be denied. And many people come to these conclusions independent of reading Mien Kamph)
Then, about the time he started seeing Jews "controlling" everything, he just flipped out.. Later I can imagine a senario where he was so powerfull, no one dared tell him he flipped his wig.
I did say a perverse admiration, JHoffa....I am not an admirer of Hitler, as you know.
I don't think he much admired his "Fatherland" as he found it, more or less in the form which Bismark had created. His first step in foreign policy was to bring Austria back into Germany, reversing a policy which took Bismark a generation to accomplish. The Germany he wanted seemed to be more like the medeival German Empire, but without Christianity.
Say, aren't we getting a bit off topic here? Maybe we need AMMON-CENTRIST back to bring us to our senses -- LOL!
To the East. As he says over and over again. By conquering the 'inferior' Slavic peoples.
My point is I don't think he wanted to emulate anything about us.. I got the inmpression that Hitler looked at other nations, their land and resources (as you said) like a fox looks around a chicken coop.
If he thought we were fat, lazy and didn't deserve our resources because we were squandering them it wouldn't suprise me.
Furthermore, he defended this as a God given right. Total darwinism, no appreciation for anything or anyone.
And this would not be colonialism because??
----Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Again Lucius, think about what he is saying here.
He is basically saying that Europe has it backwards, that the states of Europe with their 'small' landmasses have quite a task in subjugating 'larger' foreign areas due to this fact; he states that America, due to its immense 'base territory' was better suited to project its power through the world.
He is clearly offering this supposition, and wanted the same for Germany.
See post #152. We are on the same page for the most part.
A small state trying to control large expanses of far off territories (Africa, etc.) was a huge task; by expanding the size of the German state (as America and Russia enjoyed), Germany would be in a far greater position to enjoy first class world power status.
See?
Like I really give a rats rectum!
Darth Falar - member since January 26th, 2002
There seem to be a number of individuals who arrived after 9-11, coincidentally just in time to do their best to spread defeatism and malicious fantasies about the war against terrorism.
Ammon-Centrist has apparently received his long-overdue removal from this part of the civilized world. Should we have a contest for the first to spot what screenname he appears under next?
Maybe it is Darth Falar?
Looks like he was saying that conquering and oppressing your neighbors is fine, because you end up with a cohesive state, as opposed to a far flung commercially oriented empire like Britain's. I had heard that the book was heavily derivative of earlier versions of the 'Heartland' geopolitical theory, I guess this proves it. It was this analysis that 'proved' that the USSR, by controlling the Hearland of Eurasia was unstoppable. Guess not, huh?
What, did he miss his meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans?
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