Look! Look! Those North Koreans are threatening our freedoms!

Someone in the media (Amanpour) is actually asking the right questions; is the US provoking a crisis with North Korea, with Syria as the excuse.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/25/syria.nuclear.amanpour/index.html

I’m sure some policy "realists" and liberal hawks might think that any pressure on North Korea is good. And the necons of course think it is the sworn duty of the US to police everyone’s’ (except the US and Israel) nuclear ambitions.

But two things: 1) we are no longer in control and 2) we lack the moral credibility of a slug to tell very many to do anything.

Can we imply from the timing that this is the beginning of the next “crisis”, the one necessary to have before the election?

How many day/ months/ before Israel takes out an Iranian installation, and the Cheney gang retaliates to the inevitable Iranian response? While St John sings “Bomb, bomb Iran” as loudly as he can; Hillary’s wet dream of “obliterating” Iran comes true with her enthusiastic backing; and Obama just goes along for the ride and not to ruffle AIPAC.

Wake up Congress! Instead of hosting this charade, attend to the real issues facing this nation. But no. Tough times demand distracting the American people with ginned up foreign crises.

We get the government we deserve. Hard to believe, but true, that Americans have sunk so low as to allow what we’ve got now.