07-29-2003, 12:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-29-2003, 12:50 AM by Tiffany_Scott.)
The reason the answer in this case is so blatantly obvious is due to the fact that the little nerd nutcase up north's words and actions have made it ABUNDANTLY clear that even WITH the U.S. military presence, he's contemplating an invasion.
God help us if that little Froot Loop gets diagnosed with terminal cancer. He's the type who would almost certainly respond by
(1) Immediately having the doctor who gave him the bad news killed. Probably after the aforementioned doc had first been tied to a chair, then forced to watch his wife and family raped and murdered by a platoon of soldiers.
(2) Getting a 2nd opinion. Followed by killing THAT doctor too, regardless of the prognosis. Why? Cuz if Doc 2 said he was cancer-free, he would decide the doc was lying just to try and save his skin. And if the doc confirmed he DID in fact have cancer, he'd kill him just to vent. Being the personal physician to a megalomaniac is a lose-lose scenario, you see.
(3) Going for broke. People with HIS worldview cannot accept the idea of the universe continuing to exist without THEM. The idea is simply unthinkable. Therefore it's time to take as many others with him as possible. Why not, along the way he might even pull it off--become IMMORTALIZED!!! in the history books. And even if he failed, all of the resultant explosions, gunfire, screaming, and human misery would certainly brighten up his final days...
My tongue is NOT planted in my cheek, either. I've done some reading about this character, and he almost makes Saddam Hussein seem like a reasonable guy by comparison. For example: as USA TODAY reported not too long ago (no right-wing paper THERE, to be sure), he does things like kill his most loyal personal bodyguard and then throw the man's widow and kids into prison, simply because the guard had snuffed out a cigarette in the ashtray inside his private elevator. :/ THAT ranks right up there with the kind of unbridled insanity we see depicted in the worst of the pagan kings featured in the Old Testament. Yep. Nebudchanezzer and Kim will no doubt get along great in Hell, I imagine...
I referenced the Christians in my previous post merely as a quiet observation. When Vietnam was 're-unified' after the US troop pullout, there was a mass slaughter of Christians THERE, and Kim is even more humorless about "western" religions than were the North Vietnamese rulers...
God help us if that little Froot Loop gets diagnosed with terminal cancer. He's the type who would almost certainly respond by
(1) Immediately having the doctor who gave him the bad news killed. Probably after the aforementioned doc had first been tied to a chair, then forced to watch his wife and family raped and murdered by a platoon of soldiers.
(2) Getting a 2nd opinion. Followed by killing THAT doctor too, regardless of the prognosis. Why? Cuz if Doc 2 said he was cancer-free, he would decide the doc was lying just to try and save his skin. And if the doc confirmed he DID in fact have cancer, he'd kill him just to vent. Being the personal physician to a megalomaniac is a lose-lose scenario, you see.
(3) Going for broke. People with HIS worldview cannot accept the idea of the universe continuing to exist without THEM. The idea is simply unthinkable. Therefore it's time to take as many others with him as possible. Why not, along the way he might even pull it off--become IMMORTALIZED!!! in the history books. And even if he failed, all of the resultant explosions, gunfire, screaming, and human misery would certainly brighten up his final days...
My tongue is NOT planted in my cheek, either. I've done some reading about this character, and he almost makes Saddam Hussein seem like a reasonable guy by comparison. For example: as USA TODAY reported not too long ago (no right-wing paper THERE, to be sure), he does things like kill his most loyal personal bodyguard and then throw the man's widow and kids into prison, simply because the guard had snuffed out a cigarette in the ashtray inside his private elevator. :/ THAT ranks right up there with the kind of unbridled insanity we see depicted in the worst of the pagan kings featured in the Old Testament. Yep. Nebudchanezzer and Kim will no doubt get along great in Hell, I imagine...
I referenced the Christians in my previous post merely as a quiet observation. When Vietnam was 're-unified' after the US troop pullout, there was a mass slaughter of Christians THERE, and Kim is even more humorless about "western" religions than were the North Vietnamese rulers...