RESPONSE SHOULD BE MEASURED CAREFULLY.

So North Korea successfully lit off a nuclear bomb in an underground test.

What's the world's response? Condemnation. No surprise there.

Bush's?

"Oh...let's get a blockade going and touch off another Korean War." (As if having one more doesn't make much of a difference with this dipstick.)

That's his response.

So should I really be afraid of North Korea?

Considering that I grew up in the Cold War era and lived to see its end, why should I spend the next 50 years being afraid of a regime which has already lived in isolation for the last 40 years? Why should I spend every waking moment worrying about phantom bombs raining down on my head? How productive is that?

Let's face it folks: We should be more afraid of what our country's response would be to this matter, than some two-bit dictator with a severe attention-deficit disorder--even though Kim Jong carried out what he set out to do in the first place.

However, our nation has gone to war once already based on fear and false intelligence. And look where that landed us.

So why are we so eager to jump the gun again, just because we are afraid?

The world has changed much since the last days of the Cold War. But some people never did. It's just sad that they now have full control of our own government.

Schuyler Thorpe

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