Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

My two cents: POTUS is interested in posturing and how he appears to a domestic audience, not in changing anything about our relationship with North Korea. He doesn't want anyone to attack anything, unless he can do it in a way that has no repercussions (e.g., bombing Syria -- and the pushback there from Russia may have been something he didn't expect).

2. No one's attacking NK. It's the most cynical of charades. I don't even bother reading about this stupid story because there is only one course of action with NK: Sanction it to cripple the ruling party as much as possible, and when Kim saber rattles (as he'll predictably do every now and again when the sanctions imperil his rule), relax sanctions just enough to shut him up. Rinse, repeat until 30 or so cycles are completed and he ruling party is weakened enough that it collapses.

It's the only thing you can do with these regimes. It's what we're doing with Iran. And what we should have continued doing with Iraq.