North Korea blows up an a-bomb and people want to tighten sanctions. Does that really work? No. The solution, and this will scare the crap out of the NK leaders, is anti-sanctions.
Here's the idea - shower the North Koreans with protein bars. Wrap them in paper as it would probably become a crime to have empty foil packaging. Put nice uplifiting messages on them explaining that we care and we have way, way too many of these protein bars; so many we can't keep them in our blue jeans, they fill up our cars and we've had to build extra rooms in our houses just to store them.
Sanctions only hurt the common people - and they're in pretty bad shape anyway. Start with Pyongyang itself. You cover all those open areas with yummy protein bars and the nukes will be on a truck to China in a day.
The last thing the regime can stand is the fact they can't provide for their citizens. But we can! And it would crush them. It will take some work to deliver the goods safely but we have drones, high flying aircraft, t-shirt cannons. Attach parachutes and let the prevailing winds carry them over without us ever being over their airspace.
I have to give partial credit to our kids who always look at problems from unique viewpoints - they inspire me. And my wife started it decades ago suggesting that all the wheat we used to ship to the Soviet Union should all be packaged as breakfast cereals.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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