Is America really scared of Iran and N. Korea?

Question

Iran and N. Korea are small countries with limited resources. If they sent one missile to the US soil, America would send thousands of them and destroy those two countries in a couple of hours. So why the American s label these two countries as being "dangerous"?

Answer 1

do you want to be in the city that ONE missle heads for? any American life is worth fighting for.

Answer 2

The US has no fear of N. Korea. It doesn't have anything they need. They are also well contained.

Iran, however, is a different kettle of fish. The threat from Iran is not a physical threat. It is the same threat that led to the invasion of Iraq. It is the same threat felt from Venezuela. The threat is purely economic.

The US has a very fragile economy because its currency is link to oil. All oil is traded in dollars. Saddam began trading his oil in Euros through the oil for food program and this is why the US invaded. Basically if oil trading in Euros takes off then the US economy goes into a huge recession.

The US import goods for next to nothing because everyone needs dollars to buy oil. The US prints dollars for next to nothing and uses these dollars to buy expensive goods which can then be sold on to Americans. When oil is sold in Euros the demand for dollars drops and the demand for Euros increases, thus weakening the US ability to import goods extremely cheaply. Tied to this is the fact that the dollar is a very weak currency. €1 buys $1.3. When the demand for dollars drops all the foreign dollar reserves will be sold and the dollar will drop further in value. There are more dollars outside the US than within the US and if these are sold the US economy would go bust. Basically oil trading in Euros would send the US into a major recession while bolstering the EU.

Now as I said Saddam traded his oil in Euros and was invaded and killed for this. Iran started trading its oil in Euros at the end of 2006. Venezuela are looking into the possibility of trading their oil in Euros. Look how Iran and Venezuela have risen up the US agenda since the end of 2006.

So Iran is a threat to the US but not in the way the US govt would have you believe. Basically the US have set a precedent of trying to solve their economic problems through military action.

Answer 3

North Korea offers strategic advantages against Russia and China if the USA can own it. They have never forgiven or forgotten losing (failing to capture) it in the Korean war which is still technically a current war, no peace treaties ever having been agreed to by the USA.
Iran is about control of oil and the USA was defeated when their satrap the Shah Reza Pahlavi was overthrown and the rule of law reinstated by the religious leaders of the country. Again the determination to recover what the USA government regards as US property stolen by the people of the country previously controlled by the US. This is very similar to the attitude held by the USA about Cuba.

Answer 4

America scared? Nah, I don't think so. Concerned is what it is. The size of the country has nothing to do with their capacity to cause chaos. You mentioned a scenario about 1 missle. Doesn't seem like much does it?, but have you thought about how many people that 1 missle could kill? That's why they're considered dangerous. Never underestimate the other guys will.

Answer 5

this is an exceptionally solid question. I stay in the U. S. and ask your self that myself. i did no longer vote for Bush and don't look after his coverage. i might like for him to concentration in this actual risk to the U. S. and the international. This Norht Korea theing has been happening by using fact the begining of the conflict with Iraq. whilst the U. S. declared conflict on Sadam, Norht Korea become refusing any UN representatives to survey and seem at centers. i think of a few u . s . a . could step up and do somehting.

Answer 6

Individual americans dont buy all the scare tactics that Fox news and Time magazine try to peddle. Its only the extreme right thats scared because they believe all "intelligence reports" as truth. This is a comfortable way of thinking for them because in general if its written in such and such a book its true no if's and's or but's.

Answer 7

I would say because they have unstable leaders who are just disturbed enough to fire the first missile at us. What would be interesting would be to see how the rest of the world would see it. Would they justify it by saying that the US provoked them into firing? Or would they be sympathetic. I think in either case they would be against the US retaliating and our Congress would probably support them in that view. They don't seem to have the backbone to allow us to protect our country the way it is.

Answer 8

So your position is that we shouldn't worry, because we'll probably lose only one or two cities? A bit bloody, aren't you?
But MAD won't work, because your theoretical missile isn't the worry. Something more difficult to trace, such as a nuke sneaked in on a ship, is a greater worry for the US, and it isn't just the US we're worried about. We'd just as soon not lose Tokyo, Seoul, or Tel Aviv, either, not to mention that you're applying MAD to a region that produces plenty of suicide bombers.

Answer 9

Because this country would not do anything. By the time all our idiots in the government finally got together and finally decided what needed to be done .It would not matter anymore. This country is a lot of talk,very little action.

Answer 10

unlike the past wars, civilian lifes are worth something.
It is unacceptable to nuke anyone. but Iran is a terrorist org.
Iran wont send any nukes over to America, they will give them to terrorists as would N. Korea.

You're right we could vaporize them, but that is unacceptable.
They are dangerous because they will put them on the terrorist black market.

The US military and the N. Koreans and Iranians know they cant win a war against the USA, but they wont try it using conventional warfare, they will do it using terrorism.

Good question.

Answer 11

They also have regimes that have highly unstable leaders who have shown themselves unable to trust with nuclear weapons. The Iranian president has been talking for a while now about bringing on the end of the world (That's the 12th iman in case you are wondering.) If I have to explain Kim Jong (mentally) IL, you need to follow the news.