Billions of dollars to go fight the wrong enemy. But there was the largest supply of easily pumped oil in the world.

Grabbing the Nettle
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The Pentagon held an all-day meeting a couple of weeks ago seeking ways to restrain North Korea. At the end of it, one expert turned to another and summed it up: "In other words, we're" doomed — except he used a pungent phrase I can't.

It was a fair judgment. North Korea was always more terrifying than Iraq, and now the situation is getting worse...






_______________________________________________________________