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March 31, 2003, 9:15 a.m.Troop DearthThere are not enough U.S. troops in Iraq. Friday's White House press briefing was a sickening sight to behold. That's probably a bit too strong a reaction, but it's how I feel. Within limits, a reporter's job is to pose tough questions. Yet this press corps is all too eager to catch the administration in an embarrassing admission of error. It takes only the slightest hiccup in the war to draw out the partisanship and Vietnam nostalgia of the liberal media. Having said that, the opening of the war, with all its dramatic success,...

Although all eyes are currently on the general Baghdad area, we are also on a course for war with North Korea, perhaps within the next six months, but surely within the next six years. Proposals for negotiations, whether multilateral or bilateral, are fatally flawed. Nothing short of war will stop the North Koreans from developing and selling nuclear weapons and fuel. The question is whether we will go to war before, or after, North Korea spreads its nuclear material. A case can be made for holding war off until we are struck first, even if by nuclear terrorism. But that...