Soap Box

*NOTE* Charlie will be back with a new soapbox on Monday, in the meantime, here is a Soapbox Rewind from way back in 2006 about the danger of North Korea under Kim Jong-un's father. Praying that the younger Kim will learn some sense, and that the June 12th meeting leads to peace. - TeamCDB

To say that Kim Jong-Il is a mental case, in my opinion, is an understatement. But be that as it may, he is a mental case with nuclear weapons at his disposal and rules North Korea with a cruel iron fist.

He is an international time bomb just waiting to explode and is about as unpredictable as the wind. He and his father before him have wantonly destroyed the North Korean economy and ecology and reduced the country to a backward, unbelievably destitute, third world military dictatorship.

While the other countries around them prosper they wallow in tyranny and poverty.

The desperate people of North Korea have been forced to destroy the forests just to have enough fuel for cooking and warmth. What happens when the last tree has been cut down?

His people literally starve while this demented monster squanders money on armies and weapons of mass destruction.

His latest idiocy has been to shoot missiles into the Sea of Japan trying to intimidate the world into a state of fear and to pour money and resources into his doomed country.

This is just another example of a rogue regime that the world should have dealt with long ago when international diplomacy and political pressure would have had a chance of doing some good.

That time is long past, reason is useless and diplomacy is dead in the water and what has otherwise been becoming a stable area for the last few decades is now a boiling pot with the lid just about to blow off.

Kim Jong-Il is not in the least affected by the cries of hungry children nor the deprivation of his people, he just simply doesn’t care how much they suffer or if they starve, freeze or die in a war. He is simply impossible to trust or to deal with for that matter.

And what makes the world think that should Iran be allowed to develop their nuclear arsenal they would be any different, except I think instead of testing missiles Iran would start lobbing them into Israel.

Something needs to be done about Iran now, not tomorrow and the longer the UN - United Nitwits - talk about it the longer they have to perfect their deadly weapons.

The leader of Iran is another international time bomb just waiting to explode and left to his own devices he will. But I don’t believe that Israel will commit national suicide by allowing Iran to reach their nuclear goals. Israel has the means and the will to stop it and has more guts than the rest of the world put together.

The world sits back and twiddles its collective thumbs while two madmen, armed and about to be armed with nuclear weapons, threaten to tear planet earth apart and kill millions of people and no matter what the world thinks, this is not just an American problem.

Too long we have policed the world for other nations who don’t have the will to stand up and defend themselves. Maybe it’s time for America to realign ourselves and stop pretending that France and some of the other EEC countries are our friends.

Maybe it’s time for us to admit that Palestine is being governed by a bunch of thugs who are bent on the destruction of one of our only true friends in the world, Israel.

Maybe it’s time for America and Americans to face reality. It’s a dangerous world out there and when push comes to shove, who’s got our back?

What do you think?

Pray for our troops.

God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

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