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Mind Our Own Business
How would you feel if Russia, China, Iraq, and North Korea said that America's weapons of mass destruction were a threat to world peace, and unless they were destroyed, they would disarm the US and change its government? No one has the right to do that to the US. But no one has any right to tell Iraq or N. Korea that it can't develop its weapons, nuclear or otherwise. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, N. Korea has every legal right to withdraw from it. There are provisions in the treaty for just such an event. As a sovereign nation, it has every right to develop any kind of weapons it wants....
When the United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, India, and Israel developed nuclear weapons, they did not ask the world's permission. As sovereign states, they did what they thought they had to do....
You know what's wrong with this world? We're trying to run it. Sometimes we act unilaterally, sometimes we use the United Nations as a cover, sometimes we use NATO, but the bottom line is we presume the right — simply because we are powerful — to intervene and to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. So long as this remains true, there will never be peace in the world, and Americans will continue to lose their liberty as the country metamorphoses into a permanent war state.

posted by Hal 8:06 PM