Foreign Policy Loses Its Logic by Robert Scheer

Feeling safe yet? You shouldn't be.

Washington's foreign policy is now less logical than Pyongyang's. A starving dictatorship's clumsy blackmail attempts at least make some twisted sense in that the Bush administration has refused, from its very first days, to even discuss North Korea's persistent request for a nonaggression pact with the United States.

The administration plan is to isolate this paranoid excuse for a nation, as if it isn't already the most isolated place on Earth.

If we can't make peace with an utterly defeated nation like North Korea, we're in trouble. From Columbine to Weimar Germany, humiliating those with nothing to lose is always a recipe for disaster.