[Magnum44]

Obviously, I should have read further into the thread before commenting. LOTS of good insight from AmericanInTokyo, maui_hawaii, and others here. This seems to be spooling up rapidly.

I am sure the administration had a game plan in mind when it went public with this. Once again, we will see who our friends and enemies really are by their responses to this. The world is rapidly moving back towards bipolar camps, only this time it is not east vs west, it is civilized and law abiding vs uncivilized and barbaric. Better to identify our friends and foes now.

[elfman2]

"The world is rapidly moving back towards bipolar camps, only this time it is not east vs west, it is civilized and law abiding vs uncivilized and barbaric. Better to identify our friends and foes now."

There's a lot involved. We need to balance that with the fruit to be gained by a divide and conquer approach. We probably couldn't pick off a few juice pieces like Iraq and its neighbors if those neighbors and China felt threatened and fully backed them.

At some point that will no longer be possible. We'll have extended our reach once too often to be ignored. Then global division and containment will be more appropriate.

[Mo1]

It's OK and yes lots of good insight from AmericanInTokyo, maui_hawaii, and others here about this

I was listening to Rush earlier and he went OFF on a caller who called Bush a cowboy and this was all his fault.

Rush started yelling out this guy to shut the h*ll up, called him a liberal dumb @$$ that had not a clue of how serious things were while pounding his fist on the table .. It was GREAT hearing Rush

[maui_hawaii]

The world is rapidly moving back towards bipolar camps, only this time it is not east vs west, it is civilized and law abiding vs uncivilized and barbaric. Better to identify our friends and foes now.

You've summed it up nicely. And that is what is happening particularly in the case of N. Korea... a two pronged approach. One prong is to put some ideas and bait out there to bring some into our camp.

The other prong is to open a can of whoop ass on the wacko-nut jobs.

In essence its turning half of the country against the other half.