North Korea Strikes

The warped, recalcitrant, self-indulgent leader of North Korea, who feasts on fatty tuna and Beluga caviar while his people starve, has had his midget minions playing little games with US and South Korean government computers. His hackers, using some of his nation's handful of modern computers, have made a little mischief at our expense, but this cancer on the face of the globe does more than parlor tricks. North Korea has attacked and murdered American guards in the Truce Village of the DMZ with axes. They seized the USS Pueblo in 1968 and still hold the vessel to this day. They have blown a commercial airliner out of the skies. They never returned some POWs after armistice. They kidnapped Japanese citizens from their home islands to use in bizarre espionage training. They have printed counterfeit American currency and Treasury instruments. They are holding two American journalists hostage, and Barack Hussein Obama is terrified of pipsqueak, starving North Korea. Obama's worldview, which eschews force (and in my belief, had we not already been involved in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would not under Obama engage anywhere abroad as even now he is trying to return us from a war on terror back to a Clinton era law enforcement problem), is wholly unequipped to deal with the dying North Korean madman, who may well want to bring the walls of the temple down with him. Rational considerations such as survival have no bearing in the mind of missile-lobbing sadists. A leader like Teddy Roosevelt, no matter what you think of his progressive policies at home, would not have long countenanced an anti-American fanatic menace so small it was not holding a knife at our throats but at our toes. It may be time for Obama to squash another annoying bug-but he won't.