NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN

A quick note in the King Tut murder mystery. It seems that after extensive testing King Tut was not murdered, but did have a broken leg, which probably led to blood poisoning or infection which led to his death. I am sure this will relieve many people around the world to know that his killer is not running free.
Now on to more serious matters. It seems that North Korea feels that they are in a superior position as they have agreed to six nation talks once again. They have supposedly agreed to these talks without pre-conditions. You might recall that for a time they were refusing to talk to anyone unless it was one on one talks with the United States. This was rejected for the nonsense that it was and perhaps now they can be encouraged to forgo the nuclear weapons nonsense that they are embarked upon. They should realize that at some point they must eliminate these weapons or our wild ass Texan might decide that they are no better than crazies, such as Koresh and his bunch in Waco, Texas, and we might just light them up with a different type of fire, the kind that keeps burning and burning for a long time.
We should note that for all of Iran’s pronouncements that it shall not relinquish its search for nuclear weapons they are not quite so strident as to directly challenge our little gunslinger in the White House. They must have someone in their leadership that understands that our agreeing to go along with the European Union in their dealings with the Iranians on this issue of nuclear proliferation is merely because our true friend Tony Blair asked us too. He is a good and gracious ally and we have the time to give the Europeans their time to try and talk to the Iranians in a civilized manner, because the bottom line is that they are not civilized and at some point, hopefully before they gain nuclear weapons the Europeans will see the error of their negotiation attempt and will join us in stopping their insanity.
I am sure that no matter what happens the prospect of someone lighting up the skylight with nuclear weapons is much closer than it was in the bad, old Cold War days, when only the U.S. and U.S.S.R. where standing toe to toe in the nuclear game. Everyone knew that if the nukes were lit off there would be no world left. Unfortunately, in this day and age of relative safety there is the likelihood that a few nukes might go off, because it would not create an end of the world scenario and thus might be acceptable in some cases for terrorists or terrorist nations to go for it.
As the only nation to actually use weapons for the purposes of killing people and ending a war we should be the first to try and stop there use by terrorists. In this case I believe that we should give the North Koreans and the Iranians the proper warnings, and then we should as we did with Japan use those weapons to end their challenge to the world. We have every right to stop these crazies before they do a 9/11 style attack on the world. I know everyone will think that this is insane, but the truth is that if these evil people get the weapons they shall destroy us and we do not wait until the bombs are going off to protect ourselves as well as the rest of the world. Maybe this will not come to pass, but I fear that caution will be the undoing of the world. When good men sit by and let evil happen they are complicit in their own demise. We cannot sit by and let this happen and I for one wish that we would act sooner rather then later as more and more of these evil men strive to gain the nuclear weapons that would insure their regimes and give them the impetus try and expand their evil into other countries.
Daniel Carvel Kepler