Re: OT: North Korea Missile Tests
Axis of Evil - Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Iran has nuclear power stations and is probably working on a bomb. North Korea has Nuclear power and already has the bomb. Iraq had neither but was thought to be working on the bomb so they drew the short straw.
China is the biggest dictatorship in the world and is solely responsible for something like 75% of all capital punishment worldwide. They have the bomb and are a preferred trading partner of the US and a member of the WTO. Nice.
Pakistan historically was a base of operations for the Taleban and other radical Islamic groups. They have the bomb and have become a "friend of America" in the war against terrorism. Or specifically their dictator leader has become a friend of America and the majority of the rest of the population aren't so sure, which is not to say they're actively anti-American.
The US is probably incapable of actually conducting a war against an enemy which is even remotely as capable as them because casualties on the scale of Iraqi losses would be totally unacceptable to the American public (and rightly, IMO.) which is what you would get if they clashed with even a semi-modern large army like Korea's or China's or even France's... ;-)
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