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One More Time - In recent weeks, I've posted a few ideas about Iraq, North Korea, and why the President's current stance is not in the least bit inconsistent.

I heard it summed up better than I could, the other day on NPR.

Not only does the North have a history of being extremely aggressive for negotiations' sake, but they are surrounded by nations that are either hostile to them, or two keep them at arms' length. The Russians and Chinese regard them as "with friends like these..."-type allies, the South is the most heavily-armed democracy on earth, and the Japanese military is kept at a high state of readiness mainly against the North these days - and then there's us, the 900 pound gorilla in the area, with enough nukes to turn the Korean Peninsula into the Island of South Korea. None of Kim Jong-Il's neighbors are ripe for the picking.

In the meantime, an Iraq armed with nukes would be able to use them as leverage to gain control of half of the world's oil - and with it, the economies of the entire western world.

And that means busloads of peace protesters heading for Washington would have to play twice as much for gas. Are they ready for that?

By the way - this seems to have passed unnoticed; South Korea is in the midst of an orderly transition of power. Amazing what a few generations of free enterprise can do, eh?