Face - I rarely watch

Face - I rarely watch "Today". It's astounding, sometimes.

Right now they're interviewing former ambassador Donald Gregg, a North Korea expert. He sees the administration's big problem with North Korea being one of "not understanding Asian sensibilities" - to paraphrase him, "they had President Clinton in their laps. Then President Bush comes into office, calls them a member of the Axis of Evil...they lost face". Well, I suppose that's true. I suspect the Japanese lost face when we scrubbed them from the Pacific in WWII. But there was a reason for that.

On the other hand, Gregg called it correctly: Iraq has attacked its neighbors, used weapons of mass destruction, used its military force as an instrument of policy. North Korea not only has not, but is unlikely to.