Up so late and spun by the odd bug that both robs and demands sleep, I am struck by how there is so much passionate advice being given about about YouTube and Joe Torre but no one has a clue what to do with North Korea. To be fair, we do not yet know whether the boom that was the size of half a gazillion tons of TNT was actually just half a gazillion tons of TNT. But we knew the globe's worst despot - who churns through the lives of his citizens (because they are his) though a single dark Satanic machine of state, who plans affairs of state with less skill than a rejected James Bond evil character, all through a deep layer of good whisky and a freakish love of Elvis - we all knew he wanted to be here, the boommaster, the pipsqueek feared by all.
But was there no plan? We learned a few months ago that the US has a plan for invading Canada still on the books. So what to do? What would wise owl say: "To-wit-to-woo, Dr. Dress-up...glaze the place..."? What would you do? What will China do, China which likely sees itself as a target now as much as anyone.
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portland - October 10, 2006 11:35 AM
the time is now right. kim jong il is ripe for toppling, joe torre is available to take his place, and the canada invasion plans that i've been working on since i moved here will now be put in motion. if we could only get bush to stop listening to whitey herzog on iraq, i could fix it all.
Chris Taylor - October 10, 2006 12:51 PM
I can't even begin to get wound up about the DPRK when the Tigers are in the ALCS.
Best thing to do is starve the Kim Family Regime economically and let it all come down organically. Any allied military action on the Korean Peninsula will probably fissure the increasing frail US-ROK security alliance. This article by Robert D. Kaplan in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> is right on the money.
Alan - October 10, 2006 1:24 PM
Do you think that we should block access to play-off baseball theme packs for all north-east Asian satillite channels or are we facing that pesky MLB.com exclusion to the regular national security exemptions for service provision standards.
Chris Taylor - October 10, 2006 2:07 PM
I am betting the Dear Leader is a St. Louis fan, and it would be a glorious psy-war victory for the bourgeois if the Mets trample all over the Cardinals.
Hopefully Jim Leyland has mastered Billy Beane's wushu and can deal out a proper beating to Oakland.
gr - October 10, 2006 5:57 PM
I love the playoffs this year, and portland, I called my brother at the CIA and my cousin in Homeland Security and Canada's secret weapon (YOU) may be getting a knock on your door at 4 am.
I say any matchup not including Oakland is good. Tigers vs Mets good, St Louis vs Tigers, good.
Let's just strap Steinbrenner to the tip of an ICBM and let her rip at dear leader.