Chris Adams

There's some particularly amusing idiocy in this NYT editorial. The author appears to believe that it is inconsistent to go to war to prevent Iraq from building nuclear weapons while not going to war with North Korea, completely missing a point everyone else seems to agree on: it's easier to deal with a rogue state before it obtains nuclear weapons. You can invade Iraq because you don't have to worry about Tel Aviv disappearing in a mushroom cloud; North Korea could hit quite a few major population centers in the region unless the US managed a very effective first-strike on their nukes or got very lucky with some sort of missile defense system. The time for a quick strike against North Korea was a decade ago.

The really scary part about this is that the author (Leon Fuerth) was Al Gore's National Security advisor - the thought that someone this naive might have been part of a Gore administration is scary. A shift of a few thousand votes might have given us a key presidential advisor who seems enthusiastic to start a war with a nuclear-equipped rogue!