Who is more of a threat to the U.S. Iraq or North Korea?.?

Question

What should we do if North Korea keeps testing missiles?

Answer 1

I believe that one is more dangerous short term, the other long term.

North Korea, because it likely has nuclear weapons and is working on a delivery system for them, is more dangerous than Iran, I think you mean. North Korea is a potential powder keg. Its population pressures make it a place where solutions will soon be desperate ones. Its leadership is quixotic and radicalized within the cult of personality of its "Leader." I doubt if it really intends to use atomic weapons on a strategic level, but could hold South Korea hostage to the threat of their use. This would give North Korea a way, if illigitimate, of taking the south and using its wealth to placate the disgruntled population of North Korea. And this is even without the assumed threat of sale of nuclear weapons to terrorists.

Iran, not Iraq, is a long term threat to the United States in the fact that their leadership is obviously intent on domination of the Middle East and ultimately fostering radical Islamic revolution across the globe. Its a big idea for a country that has a history of defeat and domination by the West. Their first goal is the elimination of Isreal. Their next would be centralizing dominion over all Arabic states, even though Iran is Persian, not Arabian, strictly speaking. From this base they could raise hundreds of thousands of radicalized terrorist fighters to spread chaos across the globe. Naturally, the United States will have to oppose this expansion on Iran's part, as will other western countries, which could lead to the kind of war that no one could predict its type, extent or outcome.

So there are differences in the dangers of North Korea and Iran, one short term, one longer and more far reaching. Iraq will be a place that should have a chance to be a democracy in an Arabic model, but how long it can survive with Iran on one border and Iran's surrogate Syria on the other is anyone's guess. That is unless the U.S. will stand in the gap.

Answer 2

North Korea

Answer 3

Iraq...we will eventually cut off sanctions from N. Korea...if they dont stop firing missiles

Answer 4

As long as "Cowboy" Bush is in the White House, WE'RE the biggest threat to the U.S. Bush is destroying our reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper, he's put taxpayers TRILLIONS of dollars in debt, and he's turned this nation into a police state. -RKO-

Answer 5

Are you kidding. Irag is no threat at all and never has been.
Neither is N Korea. They just want to make sure Georgie does not decide to blow them to smithereens.

Answer 6

id say north korea

Answer 7

Israel is the biggest threat to the U.S.

Dump the Jews!

Answer 8

Bush and Cheney are the biggest threats to the US and the world.

Answer 9

Both

Answer 10

nothing every state has the right to defend it self