I don't see North Korea or Iran as a threat....anymore than Iraq was. These countries sit by themselves, stew about how much they hate America....but thats about as far as it goes. Iran supports some terrorrist organizations, but the state itself isn't much of a direct threat to the US.
North Korea, by virtue of their almost self-imposed isolation, represent even less of a threat. So while I agree with your Iraq analysis, I don't see Iran or NK to be all that different in terms of being a direct threat....and find it a tad curious that Iraq detractors would somehow be more comfortable with an Iran invasion. > > Brian wrote: > > You obviously didn't think that Iraq was an imminent threat to the United > > States....do you think that Iran, right now, represents an imminent threat > > to the US? Do you think any country does at the moment? > > No, I didn't think Iraq was an imminent threat and neither did Gen > Zinni the President's Middle East Advisor at the time who saw all of > the intelligence. When asked if it was he said: > > "No, not at all. It was not an imminent threat. Not even close. Not > grave, gathering, imminent, serious, severe, mildly upsetting, none of > those." > > This was because Iraq was led by a secular dictator that was hated by > most of the Middle East and had foreign fighter jets flying over his > country every day bombing any threats. > > Neither Iran nor N Korea are contrained by those controls and in > Iran's case they have radical Muslims on their side; something Hussein > never had. North Korea is run by an insane megalomanic who has little > to lose. > > So yes, I think there are state threats, but I also think that > terrorism has multiplied such that al Queda is no longer the largest > terrorist threat. > > <snip> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=38 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:133614 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
