Thoughts on Korea

So lil Georgie had his bluff called yesterday. North Korea fired (depending on reports) between five and ten missiles, basically into the Sea of Japan. Apparently, all the missiles were failures, the dreaded Taepondong-2 missile fizzled after 42 seconds and crashed into the ocean (sorry, fishies...); the rest were apparently already known entities, but either crashed, or were crashed, shortly after takeoff. Kim Jong Il didnt have to prove anything; he was just thumbing his nose at lil Georgie.

We had spent weeks blustering about how horrible the consequences would be for Kim if he launched his little air-mada (actually, the multiple launch was a bit of a surprise, at least to the public- we just expected the TpD-2). And he did. And we didnt shoot them down. We didnt blow them up on the launchsite. We didnt do shit. And Kim knew this. And thus, Georgie gets his Korean nose-thumb.

And lil Georgie has no one to blame but his own damn self, as we say in Texas. He's stretched our military to the point that it can really only sit in place in Iraq and get shot at. He's removed us so far from the mainstream of diplomacy that we couldnt organize a escape in a Turkish prison. And he's spent our asses into such a hole, that even if we could pull something off, we couldnt pay for it.

So, when Iran does something egregious, or Somalia lobs a rocket at something of ours in the Persian Gulf, or some 'state' somewhere does something against our best interests, remember this Fourth of July. It's the day the rest of the world declared it's independence from American influence.