Well, OK then. I appreciate you being patient with me.
You posted this comment:
. . . in response to this question:
Come on now asahi do you really not understand what I felt was ridiculous [sic]??
No goalposts moved. It had a TON to do with oil, not just the oil in Iraq but the oil in the entire region. What exactly do you think it “turned out to be” about anyway? Freedom? Stockpiles of chemical weapons? Al Qaida? If Iraq “turned out to be” about something other than oil…it’s because Bush & Co so badly fucked up the occupation and the administration of post-Saddam Iraq that they could no longer focus on the oil. Even now, though, US involvement in the Middle East has a lot to do with oil. We’re not living in a post-oil world.
You moved the goalposts to include two other nations and about 100 years of history.
*“What exactly do you think it “turned out to be” about anyway?” *
It’s right there in my post. “It turned out being about the Shrub getting even for his Daddy and his cronies getting rich.”
Ok.
Doubtful, though at a guess Xi would probably have mixed feelings if Kimmy 3.0 were to develop fatal lead poisoning. The thing is, China isn’t actually a monolith with everyone marching in lock step…there are factions who have supported North Korea and even, covertly, assisted with their nuclear weapons development as well as rocket development programs (both because they support NK and to embarrass Xi and his faction) and who wouldn’t be too keen. Even on Xi’s side/faction, they are more interested in maintaining the status quo, not having the regime go down completely. From the public perspective, I think a lot of Chinese citizens aren’t too happy with North Korea for a variety of reasons, but they also wouldn’t be too happy with the flood of refugees that would almost certainly be crossing the Chinese border and flooding the northern provinces.
what factual part of the article do you think I ignored?
Compilation of Fox hosts calling for first strike on North Korea, some suggesting to nuke them
Great guys… you finally have a President as your #1 fan and you use that pulpit to preach nuclear annihilation. What journalism class covered inciting genocide, exactly?
Henry Kissinger: Pre-emptive nuclear strike on North Korea is “Tempting, strong and the argument rational”
The US is sometimes likened to the World’s Policeman, when it’s more like the World’s George Zimmerman.
It would be incompetence if Korean leaders didn’t arm themselves to deter the sorts of behavior that made Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria into post-Apocalyptic wastelands.
Arming themselves (with nuclear weapons) is what has people (semi-)seriously discussing if we should nuke them preemptively. If they hadn’t been pursuing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, do you honestly think we’d be talking about bloodying their nose or nuking them? I don’t. Things were relatively stable and safe for decades prior to their pursuit of nuclear weapons, and even though they were relatively defenseless (no nukes or ICBMs) we didn’t invade or attack them.
Has Kissinger ever seen an opposing country he doesn’t want to bomb?
Korea has been under threat for a good long time - even during those moments when people like us aren’t discussing it. I suspect even during those times we might be more interested in discussing other interesting topics, the military threat is never far from the minds of the Koreans.
Libya? 
But it’s not deterrence, it’s promoting.
Do we threaten
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Cabo Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the
Costa Rica
Cote d’Ivoire
Croatia
Curacao
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor (see Timor-Leste)
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia, The
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, South
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe?
If you make yourself a threat then you become a target.
No, AFAICT Korea doesn’t threaten any of those.
How many on your list has US military in them, targeted by US espionage, or undergoing US diplomatic pressure campaigns?
If you make yourself a threat then you become a target. 