Potential consequences of Bush's N. Korea leadership vacuum

we're not having to wait until doofus leaves office to reap the consequences of his disastrous presidency...

In the absence of American leadership [on the North Korea situation], Japan is now flirting with harsher security options to preserve its own security. In other words, Japan is calculating that America may be so weakened or internally consistent that it can't be the guarantor of Japan's security. Counting on America less, Japan may consider adding to its security tool kit preemptive strike options of its own. Fascinating and disturbing.

and what do you think might be added to that so-called "security tool kit," hmmmmm...?

While Japan has a serious domestic allergy to home-based nukes, if America looks even less dependable in the future, Japan may flirt with nuclear weapons acquisition as well.

sharing nuclear technology with russia... encouraging civilian nuclear development in india... selling military hardware to both indian and pakistan, already nuclear powers... unconditionally supporting another nearly out of control nuclear power - israel... and now, blindly nudging japan towards developing nuclear weapons capability in the interests of its own self-defense... how is it possible that one presidential administration can make such a huge, goddam mess...?

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