OK, I just caught the end of this so it will be a hit and run short diary. But it is so surprising I had to put something up.
So I'm sitting here after watching KO and switch over to Fox to see whats up.
And I see Dick Morris advocating helping/giving Japan nuclear weapons. Huh? More over the fold...
Transcript from my Tivo, caught mid-discussion:
Colmes:...My question to you now is about Japan and about arming Japan. Nuclear arming? Do you want to give Japan nukes? And what[sic] is nuclear ever help bring world peace? When is that ever happened?
Morris: For 65 years, for 60 years, after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only reason we never had WW3 is because of nuclear weapons on both sides.
Colmes: So you want more nukes...you want more countries having nuclear weapons?
Morris: I believe that if China and North Korea both have nuclear weapons, the only offset to that is the deterrent philosophy that has worked for 60 years, which involves Japan having nuclear weapons. You cannot...ultimately the question Charles DeGaulle asked is would the American President sacrifice New York for Paris? And he said no. But the French government wouldn't, which is why France got the bomb. Japan needs to get the bomb so that North Korea understands they cannot trade Tokyo for Pyongpang.
Colmes: In the long run, is this not why more crisis will develop years from now? Aren't you asking for trouble globally in the long run if more countries have nuclear capabilities?
Morris: I agree with that completely, but North Korea has it. You can't make it like gun control, where nobody gets a gun except the bad guys who steal it, and the gun control prevents the good guys from getting it.
Colmes: We gotta run-should we help Japan get that weapon?
Morris: Yes, we should. Yes.
Colmes: And that would be part of the solution you are talking about?
Morris: If China does not ratchet up the pressure on North Korea. But give China a chance to give Korea time to back down, and then Japan need not go nuclear.
So what the fuck? Isn't Dick Morris a Dem? Is he trying to be a world player or what?