oh, this is nice…….

news.yahoo.com

Forget some 7th century barbarians with sheets on their heads. Asia is going to be Obama’s big “testing of the mettle” so to speak. And it’s either going to be…

the death of Kim Jong-Il, and a succession crisis, or….
China starting shit with Taiwan, not to conquer it just yet, mind you, but really just to see what they could get away with. From their standpoint, all indications so far are pretty good.

There was another article about how Obama is going to “reassure” the Japanese Prime Minister of the strength of our alliance.
You tend to reassure those that have doubts.
Now why in the world would one of our most staunch allies need to be “reassured” ?
Hmmmm