Saudi nuclear weapons 'on order' from Pakistan

Just what we all need, eh?

Iran's comments about wiping Israel off the map is just populist rhetoric. This is the real reason they want nukes.

I'm sure there are plenty of reasons Iran wants nukes.

One of them is to prevent an attack by the US and its allies. You certainly don't hear public musings of invading North Korea, do you?

A deterrent to match Israel's is another, as well as big dick status in the Persian Gulf probably. The threat jumps a couple notches the next time Iran threatens to close the Gulf is they get nukes.

No matter how you slice it, nuclear proliferation is bad news.

Not in public you don't.

Well, not loudly in public. The continued atrocities being committed in North Korea show that the rest of the world didn't really learn anything after World War II.

That lesson was learned lots of times, from Cambodia to Congo to East Timor to Bosnia. If there's no money to be made there or an "ally and friend" is the one doing all killing then no one really cares.

The problem in the DPRK is that, for the time being, China likes to have them there as a firewall against South Korea. When China loses interest in the regime running the DPRK I imagine China will invade North Korea and then run it as a vassal state.

The last thing they want is a unified industrialized nation on their borders.

Rwanda is in there, too.

Not that I'm endorsing interventionism. Quite the contrary actually. Too easy to get quagmired in conflicts that are automatically going to turn into guerrilla insurgencies if we barge in with superior firepower. It's just more than a tad annoying that one genocide gets more attention than the others do, depending on what mood the media's in and how beneficial to their ratings the intensity of the coverage will be.