The overhyped reaction to the firing of a missile that had insufficient range to hit the United States is just another episode in what is North Koreas slapdash Wile E. Coyote-style weapons program. The good news is that it will probably be three to five years before North Korea can make a long-range missile that can reach the continental United States with a nuclear warhead and all the other required technological advancements (for example, a heat shield that will withstand re-entry into the earths atmosphere). The bad news is that the United States does not have a viable policy toward North Korea to even hope to impede those adverse developments.
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A candid reassessment of the presidential scorecard over the past 100 years, identifying the hypocrisy of those who promised to limit government while giving due credit when presidents lived up to their rhetoric.