In New Job, Diplomacy Displaces Saber-Rattling -WP (Crouch,/NKorea)

The situation was dire, but J.D. Crouch II had a solution. North Korea's nuclear program presented such a threat, he determined, that the United States should dispatch more troops to South Korea, redeploy tactical nuclear weapons and plan airstrikes against the North's nuclear facilities should diplomacy fail. "Diplomacy in Pyongyang without military power," he declared, "is appeasement plain and simple."

That was 1995. A decade later, North Korea's nuclear program has become a graver threat, and now Crouch is in a position to do something about it as President Bush's new deputy national security adviser. But the solutions of Crouch's youth in academia look more complicated from the seat of power.

"The world is different," he says. "Circumstances have changed."

Few more than Crouch's own. The little-known saber-rattling professor at a Missouri university now reports to work on the second floor of the West Wing. As the second-ranking official at the National Security Council, he serves as principal backup to national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley and plays an influential role in the interagency deputies committees that develop administration foreign policy..........

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200790.html

as if four years under the mad monkey haven't passed while they got the bomb...

"At 46, Crouch no longer publicly agitates for attacking North Korea, or for returning U.S. nuclear weapons to the peninsula."

yeah, he just does it privately. There are no plans on my desk!

"once pulling a man out of a burning car wreck. ("It's no big deal," he said. "People do this sort of thing all the time.")

Then don't talk about it to the WaPo, you false-modest lunatic. Go drum up more support for chemical weapons and new nukes!