[thoughtomator]

So why take great comfort in the fact that North Korea still has work to do in successfully developing and demonstrating its ability to attack U.S. with its long-range missiles?

We can take some comfort in that they can't do it right now. That gives us some breathing room to clean up the mess in aisle ME before we bring our assets to bear on this little problem.

[Paul Ross]

We can take some comfort in that they can't do it right now. That gives us some breathing room to clean up the mess in aisle ME before we bring our assets to bear on this little problem.

Agreed, but only if we actually start cleaning up that mess. We need to fulfill the Gipper's great hope: