North Korean Chicken

I wrote this draft the morning of North Koreas' excitement over their
bomb. I was pretty annoyed at the fact that we allowed the liberals to
handle the North Korean debate.




So we played chicken with North Korea, and we lost.
We miscalculated their intent, or perhaps ignored their
intent and they defied our promise to not tolerate their
quest for nuclear power.

Every grade schooler can tell you that you never bet
against the new kid in a game of chicken. Better to
wait for a later game after you have judged his speed.

So what now? My President has issued a terse response,
through the press, and I guess that it was directed to
North Korea. So what?
Really we did not oppose them when we had the chance we
instead focused on a couple of countries still living
in the moral dark ages and we forgot that the enemy you
ignore will be the enemy that steadily gains strength.
We have allowed a real evil to arm himself with the
greatest weapon we have at our disposal and the only thing
that we can logically do is to chastise him for his behavior.
It is not as if this is a surprise.
Indeed he has warned the world that this was his intention;so
the real question is:can Iran be far behind?