The Blog Post that keeps on keepin on

Oct 2004: 21 things we will learn in the next 6-18 months

• How much well-vetted intel passed through NSC, State and DoD about North Korea's fast-tracking of plutonium conversion beginning mid- to late-2001.

Okay, so we're behind with the learning thing and object lessons are hardly to be hoped for. The press is really harshing my mellow by being so slack, and Kim Jong Il should hurry up and drown in Chivas. Josh Marshall has some nice detail -- "For the US this is a strategic failure of the first order" -- on our sad "seismic event" in the Asian Sphere.

[update] Maybe, maybe not. A pony-seismic signature has some wondering if it wasn't a standard HE ruse or calibration test. My chad would hang "ruse," an m-80 in the mailbox to spook the neighbors, another ploy for attention from George. Armscontrolwonk has the suspiscions of the fromage types