We have “kicked the can down the road” until it has become the size of a Dempster Dumpster and, as one observer put it, we have run out of road.
Or to seize upon another observation, one remembers the TV commercial where a mechanic looked at a vehicle needing repair and said to the owner, “You can pay me now or pay me later” (with the intimation that “later” was going to be more expensive.
Having failed with “can kicking” and deferred “maintenance” to again mix metaphors, the “chickens” are circling to come home to roost.
To put it bluntly, what are we going to do about a country that now has ICBM capability, nuclear weapons, and a leader whose emotional stability (to put it politely) is questionable? Impolitely, Kim Jong-un seems nuttier than a fruit cake and discarding his threats as ritualistic bombast is immensely dangerous.
