Reality, Meet Divorce

clipped from tank.nationalreview.com The North Korean initiative to proliferate plutonium production technology and capability by secretly building a facility for Syria "might seriously have undermined Washington's diplomatic efforts," don't you think? At what point are well-intended diplomatic efforts recognized as the extortion tools they are in the eyes of a recalcitrant NoKor regime? For crying out loud, North Korea just attempted to complete a plutonium production plant with zero civilian purpose for a state sponsor of terrorism. Yet somehow, talking about NoKor's actions is more damaging than NoKor's actual actions. How divorced from reality can Washington's thinking be? And how genuine could any deal inked under those circumstances be? This is who we are dealing with, and they're neither mysterious nor nuanced.