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Regarding the "Global Test," let's look at how North Korea scores on the "Global Test" that Kerry mentioned in tonight's presidential debate:

· Kerry has criticized Bush on the campaign and during tonight's debate for not giving the U.N. and multilateral diplomacy a chance in Iraq before committing to military action

· Kerry said during the debate that "nuclear proliferation" is the biggest threat to America and pointed to North Korea as the major malefactor in that threat

· Since it was discovered North Korea was attempting to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons in October 2002, Bush has used a multilateral diplomatic coalition of at least five nations (USA, China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia) to contain the potential North Korean nuclear threat

· During tonight's debate, Kerry told America that to end North Korea's nuclear proliferation, he would hold bilateral talks rather than using the leverage that China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia would bring to the negotiations

In other words, Kerry said that America should take a unilateral approach (REMEMBER: Democrats have apparently changed the definition of "bilateral" recently to "unilateral" in recent months. Taking a "bilateral" approach i.e. having the USA deal directly with threats, has been called "unilateral" by Kerry earlier this month when he said in a campaign speech that Bush "has chosen to move in a unilateral way" in the War on Terror) in dealing with North Korea. Kerry himself described North Korea and "the spread of nuclear weapons was the biggest threat facing the United States" in Thursday night's debate—so why is Kerry willing to squander the international goodwill created by the Bush Administration's diplomats between China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia and "go it alone" with North Korea?

Wait… Does this mean that Kerry doesn't think North Korea's nuclear weapons program passes the "Global Test" to have multilateral talks? Will Kerry squander all of the international goodwill America has built up between China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea if he becomes president in November?

We'll see who picks up on this tomorrow. If not, you can hear more about it on Republican Radio this Saturday!

It was boring for anyone outside the punditry, wasn't it??? The dirty not-so-little secret is out!! I'm a lawyer and would love to hear a real no-holds-barred, knock-down drag out discussion of immigration policy and the candidate's respective philosophies on judicial activism and tyranny. Ain't gonna happen. I'll take just about any cheap-thrill opportunity to drool over the President. even when he isn't hitting on all cylinders, but will most likely pass the next debates -- I watched tonight because I went to a fun debate watching event.