More On North Korea, Nukes, And Our President NumbNuts

Gee, where does a girl start with this much goofiness? Mind you, I'm still trying to recover from the discovery that the fem blogger who concentrated so carefully on ass fucking (AnaMarie Cox, the original Wonkette) is now chief at Time.com.

First, I think we're playing a deadly and rather dumb game with North Korea. If we actually DO end up at war with them, you're going to see our troops take a much worse whooping than they've gotten in Afghanistan or Iraq. Kim Jong-Il's Army is not only larger than ours, its military people are just about the only ones in the country besides Jong-Il who eat on a regular basis. This means we'll be fighting people who know the only way their families will survive is if they win against the wicked west.

Sure, the U.N. agreed to sanctions against Jong-Il and North Korea, but this is a game, too. As often happens with such sanctions, they are tough to impose and even more difficult to try to police. Once North Korea makes a move against these (and they probably will, most other countries do), Bush will swagger and tell us "hey, we gave 'em a chance and they blew it." Great.

As I've stated before, I think it's the height of assinine that Bush refuses to enter into direct talks with N Korea; the excuses he's giving are particularly lame, even for him. Like Fareed Zakaria at Newsweek, I say it's past time we sit down to talk with them. You also may want to check out Newsweeks' current cover story which gives some of the background on exactly how North Korea happened to join the rather exclusive Nuclear Club.

Reported also at Newsweek is this from a senior N Korean official Kim Yong-Nam is response to Bush's and John Bolton's threats re: the nukes:

If the United States continues to ... apply pressure on us in various forms, we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that."

Remember: Bush and Bolton made it very clear they would not rule out going to war to "beat" N Korea down.