But not the great stabilising force in the Middle East? Not the one has caused the death of an order of magnitude more Arabs than Saddam Hussein? Not the one who assisted in overthrowing a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953? Not the one who has vetoed 73 UN resolutions approved by the rest of the world? Not the one who sank UN resolution 242? I would suggest it is someone else who needs to be stopped.

Get real Duh. We have seen this pantomime of 'the great evil' needs to be stopped (from using his WMDs; from fighting to noble mujahiudeen; from "lets remove Hussein from our list of terrorists so we can give him aid"). It is now very predictable. We see clear through it.

The only thing that was not predictable was, when North Korea showed that they had nuclear ordinance capacity AND they had rockets to deliver them to US soil, how fast the US stopped prodding them.

Another typical parallel of the bully in the schoolyard.