Let's reread Churchill

Sometimes you have to wonder...I was half listening to TV this evening and heard an unnamed US diplomat say that the US "will not tolerate" a nuclear north Korea. I don't think I like the sound of that. We're fighting a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, battling Shiite death squads and Sunni insurgents, standing in the middle of a burgeoning civil war in Iraq, plotting strategy for a possible invasion/big airstrikes next door in Iran and probably exploring Pat Robertson's suggestion that Hugo Chavez meet with some accident, like being shot while trying to escape. And now we're going to take on Dear Leader and the Lunatics, too? The operations calendar is getting crowded.

The President claims he is an admirer of Winston Churchill for his flinty-eyed toughness, his patented bulldog tenacity. In his endless pursuit of armed conflict with bad guys, he must have forgotten that Churchill is also famous for his declaration that "jaw-jaw" is preferable to "war war." Churchill was a warrior, but he was also a shrewd negotiator and statesman

How about some diplomacy for a change around here, or is that as quaint as the Geneva Conventions?