When a Republican is in the White House, drill is familiar. President rattles the saber, Democrats shriek that he's provoking the enemy. Now Obama, Kerry and Hagel are playing both parts in that drama
It still seems more likely than anything else that Kim Jong Un is just blustering very clumsily. But there's no way to be sure, and if you live in the South and you'd been used to shrugging off similar nonsense from his father and grandfather before him, you can't help but notice that it has a different feel to it this time. No one can be sure we haven't finally found ourselves facing the sort of delusional potentate who really thinks he can poke the tiger in the nuts and walk away without getting mauled. The Washington Post:
