Feriluce said:
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Not really to be quite honest. That song and the movie its from is satire, but it seems you take it seriously. If you seriously believe that america is supposed to be some kinda world police, then your world view clearly needs some heavy adjusting.
Well, the song and the movie is satire, however it was a satire for greatly exagerrating the reality of the situation.
The bottom line is as I explained, nobody elected us to that role, but at the same time whenever something needs to be done, we're the people the world goes to. It's just that nobody wants to be on the receiving end of what amounts to a police action. Attitudes about America vary greatly depending on how much whatever we do interferes with their immediate interests.
That said, we're not likely to agree in a general sense, and I'm used to that. However I would be VERY surprised if you think that there is no problem with someone like Kim Jong Il running a space program so he could mount weapons like that. Especially seeing as those weapons could be used on anyone, not just us. Heck, he would probably get further targeting nations other than the US (subject of the video game aside) for the reasons I pointed out. If it isn't the US that stops it, who do you think is going to do so? Who else has the resources or the leadership to pull it off? To be honest if it did come to something like this, the US isn't likely to intervene alone, I think we'd be insturmental in it, but I think a lot of other nations would be right there behind us.
See, that's the problem with screaming about the whole "OMG, someone needs to stop America" thing and making jokes about the "Team America" movie. In the end I don't think many sane people want these little despot nations to be wielding that kind of power, and somebody has to stop them.
Let's say you got your dream, North Korea wipes out the USA with EMP and for some reason none of the things I mentioned happen in retaliation. Now what happens when Kim decides to come for YOUR country? The weapon is just as powerful and devestating to everyone else as it would be to us, and if it brings down the dominant global superpower, less powerful nations are going to have no chance at all. Is it not better to prevent a situation like that from ever arising in the first place?
Even if you really hate the USA, consider that even most of our critics tend to admit we're the lesser of evils. Despite poking our noses into things, we pretty much leave most nations to their own devices. I think anyone who thinks Kim Jong Il blanketing the world with EMP and taking over is an improvement, might want to reconsider their priorities a bit.
When it comes to comments about potentially invading countries to stop the development of things like satellites which can carry weapons, it's not like they are just going to stop because they are asked nicely. Again, what's the lesser of two evils, the invasions and limited scale conflicts, or someone wiping out the civilized world one region at a time with orbital death weapons?
Of course this is a purely academic arguement because nobody is really developing that kind of thing right now, the closest to becoming a real space-based threat is China and it remains to be seen what is going to happen on that front. I think an East Vs. West war is inevitable for a lot of reasons, and liable to break out for other reasons before anyone gets concerned about the possibility of orbital EMP weapons or people putting missles in orbit over each other's heads, with those things being developed as part of the war itself if at all.