Threats, arrogance, and bluster wither in the cold light of day

macho, testosterone-fueled foreign policy is, finally, taking some hard knocks, and, in the process, further eroding u.s. credibility…

American intelligence officials are publicly softening their position, admitting to doubts about how much progress the uranium enrichment program has actually made. The result has been new questions about the Bush administration’s decision to confront North Korea in 2002.
“The question now is whether we would be in the position of having to get the North Koreans to give up a sizable arsenal if this had been handled differently,” a senior administration official said this week.
The disclosure underscores broader questions about the ability of intelligence agencies to discern the precise status of foreign weapons programs.

the entire strategic foundation of darth and the neocons is washing away like a sandcastle at high tide… when you characterize a country as part of an “axis of evil,” you’ve essentially painted yourself into a corner… it seems fairly hypocritical to engage with a country on which you’ve pasted that label, and, then, when you try and extricate yourself from that predicament, your defenders have to make ridiculous statements like this…

“The question isn’t whether the axis of evil is dead; it’s alive as it was yesterday,” said Daniel P. Serwer, a vice president at the United States Institute of Peace and a former diplomat who served as executive director of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.

but, no matter how you slice it, you still have to come to grips with the truth…

“The administration appears to have made a very costly decision that has resulted in a fourfold increase in the nuclear weapons of North Korea,” Senator Reed said in an interview on Wednesday.

heckuva job, darth… heckuva job, neocons…

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