PYONGYANG IS CRAZIER THAN SADDAM
Literally. He appears to be intent on provoking the ire of the United States, which was very willing to ignore him until he started to ratchet up the pressure with his new North Korean nuclear enterprise. Now the US is responding by sending bombers to Guam ("just in case").

His people are starving; his army is ill-equipped; so he's pouring his energy into developing a nuclear time bomb. Go figure that one. At least we understand Saddam. He's a compulsive gambler who believes that he can beat the odds. But what gives with Pyongyang?

As much as we'd like to think it does, maybe the future doesn't lie in the hands of America. Even when we're acting nobly (We don't always -- e.g. the dirty tricks on UN security council members) it doesn't mean that we're always going to get to call all the shots. Sometimes I wish I were a dispensationalist so I could just sit back knowing that the whole thing is spiraling toward Armageddon anyway. Instead I'm stuck trying to figure out what's going on. It doesn't always add up.

Ecclesiastes 8:1 (NLT) -- "How wonderful to be wise, to be able to analyze and interpret things. Wisdom lights up a person's face, softening its hardness."

Ecclesiastes 8:12 (NLT) -- "But even though a person sins a hundred times and still lives a long time, I know that those who fear God will be better off."