Hmmm... so if Korea disbands its nuclear arms program the United States will give it aid (I've heard estimates on NPR as high as 10 billion, although I can't find any articles to confirm this number). So if they stop being "bad," we'll reward them. Here's an idea... how about we don't offer them money, they continue their program, and blow themselves up. But what if they try to attack us, and their missile malfunctions on its way here, effectively blowing up a country that had no part in the conflict... well then it would be our fault that said country was blown up, because we didn't stop Korea. Um, hmmm... no it's not, it's Korea's fault, they're the one who fired the missile. But what about all the destitute Koreans who are so poor they can't even feed themselves, if they're blown up that's inhumane. Well then they should leave Korea if they're that hard off. But it's not that easy to leave. Um, yes it is... just leave. If you die in the action of saving yourself and improving your world, isn't that better than dying in the act of acquiescence, because that's what's happening now... they're acquiescing to the situation instead of fighting it. Let's see, Starve to death, or Die trying to better my own existence? Be shot to death while escaping in the night through razor-wired borders, or just resign yourself to an inevitable Concentration Camp? I know what I'd choose. When did the United States become the desperately indulgent submissive parent who promises a child candy to prevent a temper tantrum. I really don't want to be a political person, but the more I listen to NPR the more that I can't help it. There are so many things wrong with the U.S., but we don't really care about those problems. We're more concerned with everyone else's. We have become the nosy stranger that tells you how to raise your children. What was wrong with America's pre-Pearl Harbor stance of noninterference? Why didn't we return to that when World War II was over? Why do we feel the need to be the world's savior? What is wrong with being a selfish country and solving our own problems before dealing with other's? Sometimes it's important to be self-centered.