GoDuke, nice informative post
Rambling post follows...
Folks love to question the motives of the U.S., and act like the other folks are standing on purely moral grounds. This shows a more substantial reason for their stern opposition. We are a bit cocky about the outcome of the war, but it shows itself not in our politicians talking "smack" to the blustering enemy, but in the fact that we are already setting up contracts for the rebuilding of the country after we've defeated it. What other country has ever worried about helping their defeated enemies? Other nations conquer with the attitude of "to the victor go the spoils." America achieves it's objective and then helps the people of the defeated nation rebuild their country. Ever seen the movie "The Mouse that Roared?" It's not too far fetched. It's probably good the France has such good relations with Iraq because the Iraqi army seems to have adopted the French military strategy. Surrender early and often. There was a band of Iraqi soldiers that tried to surrender to some British soldiers who were training. The Iraqis thought the war had started and broke through the barricaded boarder to surrender. Made of the same fine stuff as the vaunted "French resistance" in WWII.
Personally I don't think war is necessary at this time, but I sure can't stand up and declare the U.S. to be an immoral crusading rogue nation doing it for no good reason. I'd rather take over France (a well organized militia made up of Cub Scouts and Brownies should be sufficient) and split it between England and Germany, so the French can suffer two of the cuisines and languages they despise.
North Korea continues to hiss and spit at us like a sleazy lawyer trying to get a settlement because it will be cheaper than the cost of fighting. Why - because the communist system does not produce a strong economy and they cannot provide guns and butter. They have first-rate guns, but the people are cold and hungry. So they try to get us to support them, but must do it so that it seems like they intimidated us instead of working with us and getting aid like the rest of the world. I hope we just back away and back away until they do something that the rest of the world (excluding France, Switzerland and Cuba) will demand force to stop them. At that point we could offer our military, but ask the member nations of the U.N. to finance our costs. They can vote on it and debate it until they or their allies are attacked and we'll just sit by patiently, after letting North Korea no that if they attack anything American, then they will be bombed back to the stone age, otherwise they can have their fun and get other countries to pay their blackmail.
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