Which is more embarrassing?
1) The fact that Brent Scowcroft, the president’s father’s foreign policy guru, keeps on having to resort to the opinion pages 
to warn the president away from some new foreign policy disaster? (These public missives, of course, are widely and I think correctly seen as veiled messages from former President Bush.)
Or
2) The fact that the Democrats apparently have to rely on Scowcroft because they have no public figure of sufficient credibility and expertise who can publicly sound the alarm when the president marches off into another bout of foreign policy ridiculousness?
Here’s a hint. It ain’t #1.
In Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section, Scowcroft and Daniel Poneman tell the White House what everyone who is a) paying attention and b) not afflicted by a rich foreign policy fantasy life should know by now: that time is not on our side with North Korea and that we must act now.
Tempting as it may be for them, the folks at the White House simply can’t let this situation drift into another disaster which they can then pass off on their political and press sycophants as the fault of Bill Clinton.
Very tempting, I know. Just terrible for the country.
