Begging for war
"There are no good options," Brian Williams said the other night on MSNBC, launching a discussion about North Korea with the implication that war -- maybe nuclear war -- is the only solution to the problem it represents.
We've been cradling our own suicide for seven decades. The baby's eyes open . . .
And Williams was right, though not in a way that he understood. When war -- forceful domination, victory through threat, carnage and, if necessary, annihilation -- is the ultimate limit of one's consciousness, there are no good options. Even reports, "have thousands of rockets and artillery pieces aimed at each other across the world's most heavily armed border."
