I really hope these numbers are wrong...

Americans split on North Korea action

"A slim majority of Americans, 51 percent, said the U.S. should take military action against North Korea, while 46 percent of Americans opposed the use of military force against what is often described as the most isolated nation in the world. More than half, 58 percent, of Americans said that North Korea is a long term threat, while 25 percent described the nation as an immediate threat and 17 percent believes it poses no threat at all."

You gotta be kidding me. Have the American people learned nothing over the last 8 years of shotgun diplomacy????? Military action? This "satellite launch" (regardless of whether or not that's what it actually was) was no direct threat to America, so why the hell would we take military action??? If anyone would be taking action, it would be Japan, and they didn't even deem it worthy of shooting down the damn missile.

A majority of people in this country must think that taking unilateral military action doesn't cost money and lives and tarnish our international image, because that seems to be their option number one whenever it comes to addressing our non-allies. No wonder a majority of people around the world see America as the number one threat to world peace. I believe it's probably surveys such as this that drive such a commonly held notion.

Wake up people. War-mongering is so Bush-era.

Or should I say, the Bush years called, they want their ignorant war-mongering population back.