. and so everyone then faced the menu, the grim menu of bed choices and kind of debated the bad choices. but there wasn t a lot of advancing of the wild choices. and it s remarkable that even within recent history people who have argued for being careful about dealing with north korea, because of a handful of nuclear weapons, people who were worried about having to run to their basements in hawaii during missile drills, are suddenly saying let s just wait in and create a conflict between two powers that we have been trying to avoid for 70 years and i think again it s an understandable emotional, lawrence. i feel it. but i as i say in the piece, emotion is not a guide for policy. and one of the things i ve seen, i feel like i ve detected,