Saturday.....War On Terror.....Tripartite Wink?

Japan's aggression was already in effect against neighbors since 1936 when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. The next year they, along with Rome, signed what became known as the Tripartite Pact, this over a year before Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were no friends of the German people nor did Germany consider the Japanese their ethnic equal, neither did they coordinate military actions during World War II. They simply served each other's desires by sharing common enemies. There is no discernible similarities between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong il, save the shared enemies. Prior to the turn of the 21st century, Kim knew very well that an attack on the South would result in a monstrous military retribution from the United States. Ahmadinejhad knows that should a war develop now between Iran and Israel, a North Korean attack on South Korea would severely strain and limit American help for Israel. Kim knows that such a situation would benefit him also. Chavez' fortunes are waning considerably and Columbia's relationship with the United States is part of it. Alliances need not be formally crafted with sharing of resources and communications during the conflict. An initial survey of China's economic power and its economic stability being dependent on the stability of Western nations might lead one to believe that they would put enormous pressure on Kim to control his actions. Maybe...maybe not, for China faces many internal problems in areas of social stability and would very much like to take full control of them. Whether this is a viable argument or not, and I certainly hope it never happens, we cannot prepare for hostilities in the Middle-East without also preparing for unexpected alliances arising against us, informal though they may be. Yet we continue to curtail our military's might and resources and instead of preparing our military by uniting them in one common purpose, we do the opposite and spend our time trying to do away with don't ask, don't tell. Hitler talked peace while preparing for war. Reagan talked peace while preparing for Hitlers which we would do well to emulate today.