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Ice-T and DPRK

Decibel Magazine has an interview with Ice-T where he discusses, among other topics, some current foreign policy issues.

It’s pretty sweet. Here’s what he had to say about the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the status of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program:

Ice-T: …we ain’t lookin’ for bin Laden, right? He set it off, and we kinda left him out in the cold. We already know the politics of the Taliban at the end of the day, but bin Laden got off. I mean, we’re allowed to fight back. If you bomb us, we’re allowed to f*ck with you, but they ain’t even lookin’ for bin Laden. And he’s like, “F*ck you”—still. [Laughs] He’s in, like, a Puffy video right now or some shit.

Decibel: Wherever he is, he’s a hero to the people who are hiding him.

Ice-T: Exactly. In the meantime, we’re trying to play some PlayStation and have a life, but Bush and Cheney and all these motherf*ckers got foreign policy issues that quite possibly could… You know what the f*cking thing is? Right now is the only time in my life where we’re really in a position where we could all die. Vietnam wasn’t it, but right now, with North Korea and all these motherf*ckers, this is real shit. A nuke could go off within the next three years real easy. And now that the Middle East is buck wile, the United States doesn’t even know what the f*ck to do. They can’t even clean up New Orleans, man.

Now get back to your PlayStation…

Paul Kerr

Writing on ACW 2004–2021

Paul Kerr has been a research analyst at the Arms Control Association covering missile and nuclear non-proliferation issues since 2002. He also covers weapons of mass destruction developments in South Asia, Northeast Asia, and the Persian Gulf regions, as well as Israel's status within the international non-proliferation regime and U.S. non-proliferation policy.

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