1. WE have nothing to gain, no more oil increases like with iraq, no more "we beat up a bunch of rag heads" from bush, bush gains nothing.
Oh, please, play Junior Conspiracy Theorist somewhere else.
Can you seriously claim, with a straight face, that the United States has secretly set up this situation as a method to get *oil*? You seriously think that we'll spend billions of dollars on a war and subsequent reconstruction in order to be able to be in a position to *BUY OIL*? Why don't we just spend these billions of dollars to buy oil from the dozens of other countries that are happy to sell it do us? Oh, wait, *WE DO*. What's especially crazy, though, is that not only do you believe all this crap, but you also believe that the United States is both smart enough to create this huge elaborate, dare I say insane, conspiracy but also too stupid to hide it from hippies?
The world situation exists simply because everyone in the universe, with the exception of myself and whoever invented Combos(tm), are really really stupid. It's as simple as that.
2. They are like pakistan and india, we cannot prevent proliferation once they have the nukes and can strike our allies and our selves.
3. If we attack N. Korea the ROK and Japan will be turned into glow in the dark parkinglots and the US economy would take a MAJOR hit losing these two essential trading partners.
No, they won't, because the world doesn't work like the plot to a bad Command and Conquer addon (Red Alert 2: The Search for Yuri's Gold). If there were for some reason a war with North Korea (a 'Korean War'? Perish the thought!) then it would be a completely conventional war... because no country is stupid enough to alienate the rest of the world by using such weapons. Iraq had chemical weapons in 1991 -- why didn't they use them? Because they'd lose *all* their support in the world community in order to kill a bunch of Japanese people. The US and Russia, both countries with enourmous nuclear arsenals, fought dozens of wars in the last five decades... and lost several of them. Why not nuke somebody? Because it'd be stupid. Nuclear weapons exist today *solely* as a deterrent -- don't attack me, I have this. They will never be used in a tactical manner.
4. They soon will be able to retaliate against the US proper, something we would not like.
Oh contraire -- were North Korea able to build an ICBM... and so far this is not a serious possibility outside of scary newspaper headlines... then the government would be *happy* to see them attack the US. It would, once again, turn the world opinion against them and give the US a blank check for actions during the ensuing war. We *love* that sort of thing, to the point of practically inventing such situatiosn (North Vietnam fired at an American gunboat and didn't hurt anyone, eh? WAR!)
Basically the message, of this entire mess that George W has gotten us into, for all countries the US doesnt like is to get nukes and get nukes fast. If they get nukes they can retaliate in such a way that shrubo will not risk it. Why do you think Iran activated its heavy water reactor a few months ago, they saw the writing on the wall, that if they wish to not be the US's butt buddies and actually have self rule and be able to act freely in their own country, they need nukes.
Lots of dumb things are George Bush' fault. The entirety of the world situation, however, and the concept of nuclear detente is *not*. Go work on the moon landing thing.
Likewise look at who we are allied with in the middle east and who we want to attack. Iraq is by far the best country in the M. east in the way it treats women, women have the same rights as men, serve in the government, drive, etc. they are the same as men in iraq. In saudi arabia one of our closer allies in the M. East women arent allowed to leave the house without male guard, they cannot be doctors, they cannot be educated, they must be vieled at all times, they cannot drive. Iran (who we obviously dont like, being called part of the axis of evil) is the most democratic of all M. eastern governments other than israel, and infact could be viewed as more so in the fact that it doesnt have legalized apartheid.
Being allied with a country is not and has *NEVER BEEN* an endoresement of their actions. We allied ourselves with Saudi Arabia because we want to move large amounts of soldiers through their territory, not because we want to celebrate how horrible they are to women. We allied ourselves with Russia because Germany was at war with both of us, not because we loved communism.
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