Talking to an Australian friend and they are scared SHITLESS!

[DFW]

24. If it is any consolation

Republicans are essentially cowards. They do not like to attack enemies they know will shoot back (Iraq was not an exception, but rather a stupid miscalculation). Reagan attacked the island of Grenada, Bush I attacked Panama. Noticed they never attacked their "axis of evil" because countries like Iran and North Korea would shoot back. Cheney, Bush II and Rumsfeld believed (or pretended to) that Iraq would be a cakewalk ("maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months," Rummy said at the beginning). Something like five per cent of the population of North Korea is in the military, and they are thoroughly indoctrinated, as well as prepared for any invasion. Oh, they'll shoot back, alright. They have a million people under arms, well entrenched in a mountainous territory they know backwards and forwards, and we don't know the first thing about the place. Kill off ten per cent of the civilian population with a few nukes? Fine with Kim--less mouths to feed. Even if we do send a nuke to Pyöngyang, he'll have just enough time to turn Seoul into radioactive slag before he gets vaporized.

So, as for what our "President" is doing, tell them he's huffing and puffing, but the only house he really risks blowing down is our own.