The Nasty North

The US is poised to resume talks with the seemingly most dangerous third of the Axis of Evil. With a stultifying, though not at all surprising, lack of any semblance of consistency regarding foreign policy toward dictators and oppressive regimes, the US is not "going it alone" this time. And that's not all that differs from our handling of Iraq.

Weldon said his delegation had reiterated Washington did not seek regime change in North Korea, nor intend to invade.

Of course not. Why would we do that? We had damn good reason to invade Iraq. North Korea: totally different.

For one, leader Kim Jong Il has an even worse record of human rights violations than did Saddam. Not only that, but where Iraq never had WMDs, North Korea actually does. Plus they hate our guts, and that's always a dangerous combination. If we did attack, they would have even better recourse than does Iraq, and considering how well we're doing there ...

My bet is that we won't invade NK. Ever. If we were consistent at all in our reasoning for starting wars, then we would have every reason to. But we have nothing tangible to gain from it. They have nothing we want. We can't even remotely link them to 9/11, that magic phrase for warmongering. They never tried to assassinate Bush's dad. That we know of ...