Weapons of Mass Destruction That Bush Let In

So fixed was he on taking the family feud forward and finishing the job for daddy in Iraq, that George W. Bush neglected to pay proper attention to the situation in North Korea. Now they have nuclear weapons and are predisposed to sell them to the world - they being a rich source of income that they desperately need with potential disruptive benefits that a nation under siege simply cannot ignore.

The inevitable consequence of nuclear weapons in the world was always that "rouge states" or revolutionaries would lay their hands upon them, and the inevitable consequence of that is that they will be used. The good news is, of course, that one nuke can take out a city but we no longer live under the insanity of "mutually assured destruction."

The Cold War was a war of terror. In 1980 my eight year old step-son hid desperately, in tears, from the fear of nuclear destruction and it reminded me of the fear and sense of helplessness that I had faced my whole life in the face of the constant threat. When the Berlin Wall came down I felt a sense of relief. Even when it became clear that the flush of immigrants from the East threatened to destabilize the West, it seemed a small price to pay to have the weapons pointed elsewhere.

Governments use such fear to manipulate and control the will of the people. Just as now the War on Terror steers us like cattle to yield our liberties for the fantasy of security.

We are collectively at less risk with Nukes in the hands of terrorists than we were during the Cold War. The brinkmanship of mutually assured destruction played by large centralized governments threatened everything and everyone. The tyranny of fear prevented us from acting naturally. Now we stand to loose only New York, London or Paris and, sadly, that may be necessary to bring the people, collectively, to their senses.