Most people (outside of Iran and North Korean) would probably tend to agree that it is preferable for the types of "unfriendly"(?) governments, characterised by these two countries, not to have nuclear arsenals.
If so, we must decide what kind of coherent policy civilised countries can advance to deal realistically with the phenomenon.
We must take tangible steps to make the argument credible ... that if such governments decide to opt out of developing WMD arsenals ... they will nonetheless be safe. We must be weary (to say the least) of Bush-type imbeciles being allowed to commit international crimes. By now, few people ignore that International law, human rights and the principles of civilisation were not taken into account during the invasion of Iraq. This means that countries like the usoA, traditionally a voice of reason, have no ethical legitimacy to speak of anymore. This makes everything more difficult.
And it was all foreseeable.
And those surreal infomercials that pass for “news”, "debate" or 'analysis" in the usoA don't help. It's like a good-cop-bad-cop routine with CNN and FOX playing each role. Thing is ... the world is much less stupid than the neocons seem to think it is.
What did they think would happen when they responded to Iraqi disarmament by promptly invading that weakened country!?! Did they really think that they would get away with killing Iraqis by the hundreds of thousands ... then have the bad taste to try to prop up a puppet regime made of any corrupt -or desperate- Iraqi they could find (including the worse among the thugs from the previous regime) ... and then tie a ribbon around it all and try to call it ... “Iraqi democracy!”?
Won’t some people realise that it’s most peculiar that a “democratic government” should need some foreign invasion force to protect its members from being lynched by the people?
At this point neocon actions have made people all over our planet ask themselves: How dearly can we make them pay if they attack us? And feeling under threat, people are reverting to primordial instincts, as they always do. This tends to favour all kinds of dictatorial immune responses. And everyone is trying their best to arm themselves as lethally (WMDs), as fast, and as covertly as possible. They figure that they need to, just in case.
Basically, the principles of civilisation, international law and enlightened reason have been hit hard. And we are now facing the possibility of new dark ages. And we must work hard to avoid that. Things are worse off than they should be ... but still solvable.
