Mike the Usurper wrote:

Maybe they're not providing the evidence because according to everyone in intel and at IAEA, they're not building them.

Decius wrote:

They likely see other reasons for attacking Iran, like Hezbollah. I supported Afghanistan, I was wavery on Iraq, but I'm going to go ahead and pre-emptively come out against a war in Iran. We have two intractable insurgencies on the go. I think thats quite enough, thanks. There is no good reason to add a third. If they know where nukes are and want to go get them, then thats cool, but regime change in Iran is way more then we can chew right now.

Have you read this article on North Korea yet?

The Bush administration has argued that Iraq was a case of picking our battles. I assume the administration sees Iran as a battle we are being forced into. North Korea could wind up being a battle dropped in our lap.

Wait a minute.. Weren't Iran and the DPRK trading weapon technology with each other? Wasn't the DPRK just caught shipping weapons to Syria? Does that mean China gets all the oil and we get all the bullshit?

The Axis of Evil, indeed.

Silver star, at least.

Sacrifice is not a word that voters in free and prosperous societies tend to like. If voters in Western-style democracies are good at anything, it’s rationalizing their own selfishness.

While the United States is in its fourth year of a war in Iraq, it has been on a war footing in Korea for fifty-six years now. More than ten times as many Americans have been killed on the Korean peninsula as in Mesopotamia. Most Americans hope and expect that we will withdraw from Iraq within a few years—yet we still have 32,000 troops in South Korea, more than half a century after the armistice. Korea provides a sense of America’s daunting, imperial-like burdens.

While in the fullness of time patience and dogged persistence can breed success, it is the kind of success that does not necessarily reward the victor but, rather, the player best able to take advantage of the new situation. It is far too early to tell who ultimately will benefit from a stable and prosperous Mesopotamia, if one should ever emerge. But in the case of Korea, it looks like it will be the Chinese.

The official URL is here, where you can see a photo captioned: "North Korean soldiers in a training exercise, staged in response to a joint military display by the United States and South Korea."