Let's chat a little more about North Korea

I'm listening to Bush spokesman Tony Snow speaking right now about North Korea and how bad a government it is, and it almost sounds as if this is news to Snow and the White House. As if they're breaking some kind of previously-unheard news about North Korea - it's a bad place. Most of us have known that for half a century.

A few thoughts:

1. Good luck taking on North Korea. We have no more money left, our military is worn out, and we're still trapped in Afghanistan and Iraq. What exactly can we do about North Korea, other than start a nuclear war when North Korea nukes South Korea right after we attack them?

2. What about Iran? Remember all that talk a few months ago about how Iran was only 14 days away (or something like that) from building a nuke and using it to torch Topeka? Well, seems the Mexican invasion from the south and the pink invasion from within took precedence politically, and now it's North Korea. Iran went from an imminent nuclear threat to pretty much nothing in about 2 months. Isn't that interesting.

3. Nice that we warned N. Korea that they'd better not launch those missiles OR ELSE. Or else what? They called our bluff, and on the 4th of July, no less. So now what?

4. North Korea is NOT the issue Bush wants us debating as we enter the mid-term elections. Dems and Republicans can both agree, quite easily, that North Korea is a nasty, dangerous place. But what's more, Dems can quite easily charge the Republicans with ignoring the Korean threat all these years. So, I'm not convinced this issue is a winner for Bush, other than the fact it lets him rattle his saber, and we all know how much a boy loves to play with his saber.