It's amazing that the author acts like no one knows that the North Koreans are starving to death, it's in the news all the time.<p>I would love for things in North Korea to change, but you can't do that without getting rid of their current government. If we tried, we'd end up with a mess much larger than the one we have in the Middle East.<p>Like North Korea, Iraq was run by a ruthless dictator who enslaved his people and squandered the nation's resources. He raped children, used biological weapons on minorities, tortured and imprisoned millions, and murdered hundreds of thousands. You don't hear about it much on the news, but there are mass graves in Iraq similar to the ones used during the holocaust.<p>Even though the world knows all of this, the U.S. is still looked at like we are the world's biggest assholes for trying to change things in Iraq.<p>You might say that's because the Bush administration lied about the evidence. Did Iraq have nuclear weapons? No. Are nuclear weapons the only thing that Qualifies as a weapon of mass destruction? Of course not. The U.S. and over 2'dozen of our allies' intelligence agencies believed that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons before the war started. After the invasion, everyone else pretended that they had always disagreed with us. In reality, Iraq most likely did have biological weapons. After all, it's not that hard to hide/dispose of/ move chemical weapons when you are surrounded by countries that hate the Western world.<p>You might also say that things went to shit in Iraq, and that we didn't really help. Well you might be right about that. It's pretty heartbreaking to see how fast things got worse after we left. Like a day or so after the last troops moved out, There was a story in the news about 90 children being rounded up in Iraq, who were smashed to death with rocks for wearing jeans and t-shirts.<p>So that brings us back to North Korea. Yea we could dethrone the false demigod, probably in about 3-6 weeks if we wanted, but without the military support of the entire world, we'd just end up turning North Korea into another hell hole.