The Puppet Masters

According to the BBC, Kim Jong-the mentally Ill, fearless leader of North Korea, has just concluded a secret state visit to our good friends in the Peoples Republic of China. The reasons for the Ill one`s reticence are fairly obvious, but the motives of the Chinese seem a bit obscure.

According to the article;

Beijing has been under pressure from Washington to use its leverage as the North's main ally to persuade Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear programme.

I think that misses the whole point.

The communist leaders of China all believe that the 21st Century is going to be the Chinese Century. Most of the top military people in China see war with the United States as inevitable, and China has made the reabsorption of Taiwan into their Red Dragon system the cornerstone of their future plans. Thanks in large part to Bill Clinton`s determination to hang onto his 43 percent plurality and remain President of These United States, a great deal of restricted dual-use technology made its way to China in the `90`s for campaign contributions(remember Loral Aerospace giving the Chinese technical support to fix their satellite launches?)thus giving our Confucian friends a means of actually hurting us. Couple that with the power vacuum left as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of radical Islam, and the progressive deterioration of Western Civilization, and it should seem obvious what path the rulers of China will follow.

This all goes back to the Cold War; the Soviet Union, ever determined to stick it to us Capitalist Pigs, sided with the Arab nations in the Arab/Israeli conflict, and gave material aid and assistance which led to the formation of many of the terrorist groups with which we now grapple. Iran and Syria have been two major players in the world terrorist trade, and they were mentored by the KGB and Red Army. Once the Soviet Union collapsed there was no longer anything to restrain monster which had been created. (I remember during my misspent college years we had to translate speaches by Gorbechev. In one speach he gave to the Politbureau shortly before the end he pointed out to America this very danger-along with the fact that the Soviet Union was full of terrible weapons which would scatter to the far corners of the Earth..)

So, as a side effect of the Cold War (and our own assistance to the Mujihadeen in Afghanistan) and the value of Middle-Eastern Oil, we have witnessed a resurgent Islam attack this nation and Europe.

But what, you may ask, does this have to do with North Korea? I quote the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu;

``Thus one who excels at employing the military subjugates other people`s armies without engaging in battle, captures other people`s fortified cities without attacking them, and destroys other people`s states without prolonged fighting. He must fight under Heaven with the paramount aim of `preservation`. Thus his weapons will not become dull, and the gains can be preserved.``

The Chinese have sold weapons to state sponsors of terrorism. They have given training and technical advice to Iran, Syria, Yemen, etc. They have wormed their way into Cuba and the Panama Canal.

Does anyone think that North Korea acts against the wishes of Peking?

That old stinker Vlad ``Pepi`` Le Putin may hope to pull their chain, but Russia simply doesn`t swing that kind of lumber any more-China does. North Korea is a proxy for the Chinese.

China is playing an old game; one played throughout history. They encourage ``brush fires`` and hide their hand. When they feel they are strong enough they will stand up.

This is a true axis of evil. It includes the Russians, the Chinese and North Korea, and the Islamic Terror network. Our failure to deal with China as part of the Cold War left an enemy at our backs. How could we claim victory against communism when over a billion people still live under that wretched system? We can`t. We may pay dearly for that failure. We are eventually going to have to face the puppet masters.

Let us not forget that radical Islam is the beginning; this is truly a world at war!