This is the age for everyone to freak out over the idea that North Korea and Iran may have "the bomb" and other scary "mushroom cloud" induced nightmares, and frankly, I'd be really happy if Democrats began reversing that and started instead talking about actual serious threats to American and global security. I put this one under "Homeland Insecurity" because it's only logical to understand that in the end, this depressing trend will someday come back and bite us in the ass. There are several reasons why this is true. The primary one is the two-pronged nightmare that Bush has created for us: an increase in the amount of terrorism around the globe as a result of his two failed wars of choice; and a decrease in actual "homeland" security as organizations like DHS are staffed with cronies and our money for it is spent on hookers and limos for their johns. I think shit like this is why Clemons is so up in arms against Bolton:

Washington's desire to maintain the status quo was on display at a meeting at the United Nations on Oct. 26, when a UN panel voted to study whether a new treaty might be possible to regulate the sale of conventional arms. The United States was the only country out of 166 to vote no Read more…