Neil Gould wrote:

A question to anyone in this discussion: if *you* were the leader of North
Korea, having US troops on your southern border for the last 50+ years;
with the leader of the US calling you one of the "Axis of Evil"; and
having invaded and destroyed a sovereign nation (also on the "Axis of
Evil" list, btw) on the most obviously bogus of pretenses, how would *you*
respond to protect your population? As I see it, it's a good thing NK
doesn't have any oil.

Bogus in your mind, maybe. I don't agree with the decision to invade
Iraq, but I DO believe they had WMD and were trying to make more. I
think there was some reason to invade, but I'm not sure how urgent
things were. I will, however, give Bush and company the benefit of the
doubt in that they may have known things that can't be made public.

As to your NK question, I certainly wouldn't respond by trying to bait
the US into a conflict? If that is what they are really worried about,
why all of the provocation? They aren't worried at all about invading
us. They need financial help and are trying to become a big enough pain
that we'll pay them off. This might have happened with Clinton in
office, but isn't likely with Bush.


Matt