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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
err... yea his regime in 2003 was more or less a shell of its former self due to being under strict sanctions and being attacked on a regular basis for a good decade. that situation couldn't have possibly continued indefinitely. eventually he was going to have to be let out from under sanctions. and as for his people... he maintained his dominance over them through running a brutal mafia state. his regime was inherently belligerent, authoritarian, and desperately clinging to whatever power they could manage to hold on to.
i guarantee you the US could take out NK too. if you only consider a power a threat when you don't think the US could dominate them militarily, then there aren't ANY threats in the world.
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Pretty much what I said. Being a dictator/tyrant in his own country doesn't translate into problems for the rest of the world. How long did this go on for before the US got involved? Only when he moved against one of their largest sources of oil, Kuwait. And then they ****ing kicked his arse. He limped back to Iraq with a totally depleted force and even if he was still in power at home, he was in no position, unless he allied to another power, to do the US any damage.
Sure the US could take out NK but then China would take them out too. You want World War III?
Being ABLE to do something does not necessarily mean it SHOULD be done. I guarantee you NK and its allies could decimate most of the US, and the rest of the world if they were pushed to it, which is why they get such a wide berth.