The Red Pill

Now I see why the U.N. isn't trying to take charge of North Korea the way it wanted to be in charge of Iraq - the North Korean's are threatening that even discussing it's WMD program at the U.N. is a "prelude to war". It's too late now for Saddam to try this approach, but if he did it probably would've meant that we'd just have removed him even sooner - the U.N. protected him for quite some time. So, who's smarter? Saddam for using the U.N. as protection? Or North Korea for undermining the influence of the U.N.? Probably they each chose the best course for their respective situations. North Korea was unlikely to find any support within the U.N as Saddam was able to - too bad North Korea doesn't have strategic oil reserves!

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today: "On Saturday, the Associated Press reports, Pyongyang 'warned that any moves to discuss its suspected nuclear weapons programs at the United Nations would 'hamstring' efforts for dialogue and be a 'prelude to war.' ' Will the U.N. take this challenge to its authority lying down?"