Coming on the heels of Bush's retro-active opposition to the ascension of Raoul Castro, we see another naive and anachronistic policy push from the extreem right wing: trying to intimidate North Korea.

For all those who don't get cable news in their fall-out shelters, North Korea is already a nuclear power. Why are we so eager to provoke what would inevitably become a nuclear war? Because it won't hurt us.

There's no way that N.K. could reliably hit the US, their first targets would probably be Seoul and Tokyo. So for Republicans like Bolton and his ilk, the nuclear destruction of Seoul (Population 30,000,000) would be "sad" but convenient, because it would provide us with the pretext to use our nukes and annihilate North Korea, which deep down they secretly think would be kind of fun.

So, tell me again: Who is it that is Evil?

John Bolton never met a war he didn't like, except of course, the one in which he could have actually fought.

“I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,” Bolton wrote
in the 25th reunion book of his graduation from Yale about his decision
to join the National Guard and go to law school. “I considered the war
in Vietnam already lost.”

The Moderate Voice

Complex situation, isn't it.