Pat:

“If need be we can settle this from a silo in Kansas”

I LOVE that! I can’t breathe I’m laughing so hard.

Do you mind if I steal that one?

What place is it for the U.S. to meddle with N.Korea? 

We have the U.N. to resolve this problem.

Like it or not, until the U.S. allows the U.N. to act as a representative body of the world and accepts decisions by that body, we will be seen to be the undemocratic world bully we have become.

gerard:

Show me precisely what I said which demonstrates my insensitivity to the pain of others. Show me the quote. Please.

The mistake is letting Hillary provoke the North Koreans. If we want negotiations done with them where true communication can be done, we must send Sarah Palin. Let her talk to Buddha Kim. I’m sure he will feel her sisterly powers and will be subversively confused beyond help. Not even the CIA could get that done and nuclear(or is it nuculer?)war will again be delayed. Like Charleton Heston coming down from the mountain, the law of Sarah will be spread. Should he fail——Kim Jong will certainly be ill. She preaches abstinence, and if he doesn’t he gets Levi.

The Cheonan event smacks of a set up.

I feel the N.Koreans know they didn’t do it and feel like they are being set up, which they are.

The Koreans can sort this out on their own and Kim won’t be around forever.

Save the tax dollars, close the bases and bring the fleets home.

If need be we can settle this from a silo in Kansas, it is cheaper and it’s what we paid for in the first place.

Peetawonkus, July 23 at 5:33 pm:

‘And if they one day make good on their many threats the United States is supposed to do…what? ...’

Why, have the Chinese fight them.  It’s time they did some imperial work.  It’s time to restore order....

RICO, SUAVE OR OTHERWISE:

Shows your insensitivity to the pain of others, and of course the accompanyng lack of a sense of irony.

gerard:

Only you would assign Lewis Carroll to help us put things in a “realistic” perspective! And Mencken would skewer your posts without mercy.

Keep snarkin’ Senor Knopfler! I love it.

Not so fast with the nukes, Peter!  Jest not funny!
I’ve lived in Japan and I can tell you that for sure.

I forgot pay Richard Simmions, Lets get Physical, take Kim for a few rounds, Dancersize for Kim, Put on the Music “lets get physical with Richard!
Yes N.Korea needs to take the attention from Their friend in need Iran. Hugo will start up again Castro already predicting the Attack on Iran, He wants to make sure He is around for WW3, so He says. Yes we are all connected and this pain in the Butt is N.Korea. Could another Hiroshima be in N.Korea to teach the Iranians, Nagasaki!

Great picture fearfull leader, Kim the only fat guy in the entire country look at that stomach, that is the only out standing thing in N. Korea.
I feel like I have been down this road before, EXTORTION is Kim`s only way and now to teach it to his Son, another sick puppie poop of a person:  Maybe Kim wants to go out in a bag, or he misses his Jack Daniels whiskey and latest Porn.
Counterfeiting American Dollars might not go so far, anymore! Chinese Whiskey not so good.
Somebody, Have Mel Brooks do a comedy movie on KIM, as in KIM CHEE, cabbage and cucumber.

And why wouldn’t North Korea “threaten to go physical”?  The U.S. is forever “going physical” somewhere on the planet, killing men, women and children at the drop of a bomb fired from a safe distance away.

North Korea, poor, frightened half to death, and belligerent under the guidance of an insecure figurehead who allows himself to be called “Our Dear Leader”—and Hillary Clinton (representing the “Colossus of the West”) wasting valuable time threatening him?  What’s all this ridiculous posturing about, and who can believe the assininity of it? In 2010 A.D. when the Gulf of Mexico is injured and dying and the Arctic Circle tells us daily that the earth’s refrigerator is defrosting.
  Where is Mark Twain?  Lewis Carroll?  H.L. Menchen? Jonathan Swift? to put things in a more realistic perspective.

And if they one day make good on their many threats the United States is supposed to do…what? Can’t nuke ‘em—they’re next door to China and I’m pretty sure China won’t sit still for that. Can’t fight ‘em conventionally. Our forces are stretched thin across the globe and enlistment is down. Way down. Plus, we’re broke. We’re in debt to the Chinese for Iraq and Afghanistan for those little dust ups. Sooner or later the US is going to have one war too many on its hands and it will be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

“North Korea has pulled out of six-party talks on its nuclear programme and is blamed for the March sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean navy vessel, in which 46 sailors died.”

On this occasion, North Korea is probably correct. The Cheonan story is falling apart:

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/US-Professors-Raise-Doubts-About-Report-on-South-Korean-Ship-Sinking—98098809.html

http://21stcenturysocialism.com/article/shock_wave_and_bubble_the_untruth_about_the_cheonan_02006.html

http://brewerstroupe.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post.html