09:05 AM
Politico A little talk of war with your cornflakes

The US condemns North Korea's withdrawal from a landmark nuclear treaty, but avenues for dialogue are still open.

We are so naive. We think that the big threat lies with a foolish blowhard in the middle east. It appalls me, how our government rattles its saber at Saddam, such a stupid thing to do and largely a waste of time and resources. Even if we completely overran Iraq and executed Saddam, it wouldn't change a thing, Al-quaeda would still flourish and thrive and blow things up.

And North Korea would still make nuclear weapons and pick out targets.

That's the real threat and our current government is totally unprepared for a return of the cold war which could easily become not just hot, but radioactive. We thought 9/11 was bad? We have no idea what bad can be. Throw in the wild card of Pakistan, an Islamic nation with a great many fundamentalists and nuclear weapons and you've got a pair of really disastrous wild cards.

No, I'm not advocating we build bomb shelters again or teach our kids to hide under their school desks but I sure wish there were some smart people in our government instead of junior intent on one-upping Daddy. In spite of 9/11, we are still a smug arrogant nation that believes we can beat anyone, that we can police the world and make it over in our own image. History can teach lessons but we forgot to do our homework. I think there's a sort of national fantasy, that it would all be like World War II, like the books and the movies, horrendous yes, but still heroic and we would all pull together and be better people for it. A foolish fantasy, we cannot relive the past.

This is why I don't normally talk about politics much, it depresses the hell out of me for the last couple years. So I stick to Doonesbury, Zipper and the CIA intern kid are gonna draft Uncle Duke to run for President! :) And someone should really keep me away from the keyboard before I've had coffee!