Georgia is on the brink of war with Russia, a place where journalists get murdered by government hit men. But really we should be watching nearby Belarus, the capital of illegal arms deals. Everything is coming undone in Nicaragua and 650,000 have died in Iraq, from which U.S. troops should pull out immediately. These were among the striking claims put forth by op-ed writers this week. But let's not kid ourselves. Really, it was North Korea, North Korea, North Korea all the time. Not since the Israel-Hezbollah conflagration three months ago have the world's opinion pages been so blindingly focused on a single theme as they were this week. The title on Rosa Brook's piece in the Oct. 13 Los Angeles Times offered one way to sum things up: "A Good Week for the Axis of Evil: Two of its three countries made strides in acquiring nukes, and Bush should get a big chunk of the blame."
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