Knowing that I don't travel in the rarefied world of the State Department let me simply wonder about an observation regarding our reaction to North Korea. Hypothetical, so then if I go stand on the corner and start shooting in the general direction of my neighbor is that a sign for him to start negotiating with me to stop or a sign for him to pull out his ArmaLite .308 and put a 168gr boat tail bullet square between my eyes? Is my neighbor more or less likely to consider that boat tail if for the last 60 years every single master of my household has been battier than a cave full of bats? Further if after bouts of shooting in his general direction I start throwing firebombs which either he intercepts or they land short does he then intensify his negotiating attempts? Someone please clue me in because what we are doing right now makes zero sense.

Economists posit that if you want more of a behavior, reward it, so it follows that we must want more battier heads of state hurling threats and worse our way since we are looking like we are going to reward it. You know offering the North Koreans trade if they will simply stop acting crazy. Didn'nt Clinton try that? How successful were his foreign policy decisions?

At least Japan doesn't look to be buying into that pile of steaming nonsense. Course I am fairly certain that a resurgent Japan arming herself to prepare for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea is something akin to a nightmare for China. Like I was saying in an earlier post, President Bush inherited the most dangerous world situation since perhaps Roosevelt. I tend to believe it is worse just because the Nazis didn't have a death wish, the Islamic nutjobs do...and so it appears does Kim Jung IL.

My Way News - Japan Considers Strike Against N. Korea: "TOKYO (AP) - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.
Japan was badly rattled by North Korea's missile tests last week and several government officials openly discussed whether the country ought to take steps to better defend itself, including setting up the legal framework to allow Tokyo to launch a pre-emptive strike against Northern missile sites.
'If we accept that there is no other option to prevent an attack ... there is the view that attacking the launch base of the guided missiles is within the constitutional right of self-defense. We need to deepen discussion,' Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said."

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