[PhilDragoo]

This will hasten the Japanese butching up their defense/military posture, becoming ever more our valuable ally and countervailing force to ChiCom imperialist pressure.

It may as well awaken the South Korean sunshine flower-power somnambulism, a smelling salt of realpolitik.

The Swampocrats would that this would depress the Dow Jones Industrial Average and dampen Republican electoral prospects.

Yet they have opened another door into their face--for sleeping dogs have not lain quietly, but set off new-q-lur weapons.

The Axis of Evil--far from a political term of art of the Machiavellian Karl von Rove--lives.

Thrust and parry escapes John Kerry
He'd sooner nuance than be proactive
He cannot box, merely Botox,
I love the smell of Dukakis in the morning--
It smells like. . .victory.

[potlatch]

[ableLight]

The PRC is not celebrating, for two reasons:
1.) This may cause Japan to militarize, which the PRC doesn't need. This will diminish PRC influence in the area, especially around Taiwan
2.) The PRC is trying to run a dual system; communist government with a free market economy. In their view, this is a temporary measure to get their economy up to speed and competitive with the U.S. They, in their dreams, would then like to go back to a command economy. But right now, if all the PRC's trading partners are at odds with the DPRK then the PRC doesn't want to appear to be in support of the DPRK.

By getting the world ticked off at them, the DPRK is now the bane of the PRC.

[devolve]

[nopardons]

Well said...all of it.

[SierraWasp]

Man! I love it when you rant poetic!!! Bravo!!! Encore!!!

[STARWISE]

Well done, Phil ..

[Smartass]

Another Clinton Trojan Horse...
No Nukes...Right Momica Maddy!