[moose-matson]

To upset the status quo is always risky, but it is how things get changed.

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Upset the status quo? Risky? How things get changed?

Sorry but this is not some mid-level management team trying out some new sales tactics. The status quo is a condition of cold war between two enemies that is always on the verge of going hot.

The risk that her comments engendered is not to her or you or me...it is to the 15 million South Koreans who live within range of NK artillery.

And the change in circumstances would likely costs tens of thousands of lives...mostly civilian.

As I wrote above...no savvy foreign policy person would have made such a provocative statement....and to al-jazeera???!!!

[Sea Parrot]

Discussing a situation that needs changing is not a declaration of war.

If NK is so trigger happy unstable as you imply, they hardly need a Palin statement to tripwire them over the edge.

SK warned NK that another of their attacks such as the sinking of their naval ship or the shelling of a SK island, then they SK, would retaliate with overwhelming force.

And NK did what? Zilch, nada, nothing, is what they did. For the ones in NK power knew in an all out war, SK would certainly crush them once and for all.