North Korea is sending a message to the world that "America … could be defied.”

 

Rumsfeld himself wrote a memo months before 9/11 in which he explained the core problem facing the U.S. after the collapse of the Soviet Union: There were now “new regional powers” that were “arming to deter us from bringing our conventional or nuclear power to bear in a regional crisis.” In other words, we did not face the threat of being attacked; rather, we faced the threat of being deterred by other countries when we wanted to attack them.

Things went downhill from there, however. In a 2004 Esquire article, a “senior [Bush] administration official” explained why the U.S. had needed to invade Iraq. It turned out that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s continued existence in power “resulted in a very bad message to the world, including to Islamic terrorists, that America … could be defied.”

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s similar worldview was described in journalist Bob Woodward’s book “State of Denial”:


“Why did you support the Iraq war?” [Bush aide Michael] Gerson asked him.

“Because Afghanistan wasn’t enough,” Kissinger answered. In the conflict with radical Islam, he said, they want to humiliate us. “And we need to humiliate them.”

アフガンにせよ、イラクにせよ、要するにアメリカの覇権拡大、精神性とすれば工藤会とどっこいどっこいだったわけだ。 

しかし、そのときから成長して、北朝鮮には屈辱され続けても黙っている・・・・核武装してるからね、北朝鮮・・・・弱いやつには滅法強くでるけど、強いやつに滅法弱いーーーあまりあてにしないことですな、こういうボスは。