North Korea Would Be Stupid To Trust The United States By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2017-09-28 at 16:35:00 )

North Korea Would Be Stupid to Trust the United States by Jacob G. Hornberger

To many mainstream pundits, the solution to the crisis in Korea is for United States officials to sit down and "talk" to North Korea in the hopes of negotiating a mutually beneficial agreement. While it will not guarantee that a deal will be worked out, they say, "talking" is the only chance there is to resolve the crisis.

They ignore an important point: Any deal that would be reached would involve trusting the United States government to keep its end of the bargain. And trusting the United States government would be the stupidest thing North Korea could ever do.

That is because as soon as United States officials found it advantageous, they would break the deal and pounce on North Korea, with the aim of achieving the regime change they have sought ever since the dawn of the Cold War more than 70 years ago.

Look at what United States officials did to Libya. Its dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, agreed to give up his nuclear-weapons program in return for regime security. That turned out to be stupid move. As soon as United States officials saw an opening, they pounced with a regime-change operation. Today, Qaddafi is dead and Libya is in perpetual crisis and turmoil. That would not have happened if Qaddafi had a nuclear deterrent to a United States regime-change operation.

Look at what United States officials are doing to Iran. They entered into a deal in which the United States government agreed to lift its brutal system of sanctions, which has brought untold suffering to the Iranian people, in return for Irans abandoning its nuclear-weapons program.

After the deal was reached and Iran had complied, United States officials broke their side of the deal by refusing to lift their brutal system of sanctions and even imposing more sanctions. United States officials are also now looking for any excuse or justification for getting out of the deal to which they agreed.

Even longtime partners and allies of the United States government can never be certain that the Empire will not suddenly turn against them.

Look at what happened to the United States governments loyal partner and ally Saddam Hussein. United States officials worked closely with him during the 1980s to kill Iranians. But when Saddam invaded Kuwait to settle a oil-drilling dispute, United States officials went after him with a vengeance, and notwithstanding the fact that, prior to Iraqs invasion of Kuwait, they had falsely indicated to Saddam their indifference to his dispute with Kuwait. Result? Today Saddam is dead, and the United States government succeeded in achieving regime change in Iraq.

Look at Syria, which for a time served as a loyal partner and ally of the United States government, as reflected by the secret agreement to torture Canadian citizen Mahar Arar on behalf of United States officials and report their findings back to the Central Intelligence Agency. Later, United States officials turned on Syrias ruler, Bashar al-Assad, in a regime-change operation.

Unfortunately, this is not a new phenomenon. Recall the countless agreements that United States officials made in the 1800s with Native Americans.

United States officials were notorious for breaking them once it became advantageous to do so. Native Americans were entirely justified in accusing United States officials of speaking with a "forked tongue."

If you were a North Korean, would you trust United States officials? Would you give up the one thing that is deterring a United States regime-change operation in return for a promise from United States officials that they would not initiate a regime-change operation?

That would really be a really stupid thing to do, from the standpoint of North Korea. As soon as the United States government found it advantageous to break the deal and invade North Korea, engage in another state-sponsored assassination, or impose a new round of regime-change sanctions, they would do it.

"Talking" to North Korea will do no good because North Korea will never trust the United States to fulfill its part of any deal that is worked out. There is but one solution to the crisis in Korea: withdraw all United States forces from that part of the world immediately and bring them home. Anything less will only continue the crisis or, even worse, result in a very deadly and destructive war.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!