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Topic: Politics
Well let's all hope the casinos get opened up in Atlantic City now that the budget crisis is winding down. So quiet, you could almost hear the slot machines from outside, I mean, if the slots were being played that is.

The recent crisis with the North Koreans shows again how fundamentally inept the foreign policy of the US is. It's a crisis only on CNN where the 'Situation Room' busies itself with graphics of missiles and interviews with their bureau chiefs in China, Japan, Korean and Moscow. The US itself can do nothing and merely flails around talking about strongly worded motions at the UN which they can't even get passed. When morality, ethics and democracy were taken from foreign policy considerations and we allowed ourselves to slide into bed with the Communist Chinese for the sake of Wal-Mart we not only lost the moral highground, we also forgot to elect people who even knew what that high ground used to be. We can't 'allow' North Korea to get nukes or missiles and there they have them for all the world to see. We can't 'allow' Iran to have nukes or missiles and everyday we see them successfully stall us out on the pretend negotiations. We have no leverage with China or Russia over anything since we have decoupled foreign policy and trade policy so what exactly are we going to do if either or both decides to not support us in Korea or Iran? Here' what we're going to do. See it? It's a whole lot of nothing. A lot of nothing interspersed with flag burning amendments and other red meat things that get the base voters up and excited but do absolutely nothing with respect to any of the real problems that need to be addressed. Sad isn't it.