What do cowboy movies and North Korea have in common?
Has anyone considered the possibility that North Korea may have legitimate concerns that need to be addressed?
When George W Bush was US president he called Iraq, Iran and North Korea “the axis of evil”. Yet America only invaded Iraq, by far the weakest of the three countries. Is it surprising that the president of North Korea thinks his country better be as strong as possible?
What good has Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling done? North Korea responded by testing more missiles and taking more Americans hostage. And when I hear the right-wing lunatics on Fox News gloating “There is a new sheriff in town”, I can only assume they think this is some kind of cowboy movie. But in cowboy movies the bad guys don’t have nuclear weapons.
Unless America changes its demented foreign policy, this is one cowboy movie that is not going to have a happy ending.
Eric Bahrt
Chiang Mai
