Morality Is Not a Strategy
The crisis is not that Kim has suddenly become more evil. It is that North Korea will, within months, become a plutonium factory

President Bush is right about one thing—North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is an evil man who runs one of the most barbaric regimes in the world, suppressing and starving its own people. In the back-and-forth of diplomacy around the current crisis we should not forget this fundamental fact. The problem, however, is that in foreign policy you need not just moral clarity, but also strategic clarity.

Right now on North Korea we have moral clarity but strategic incoherence.
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  thanks to Talking Points Memo