If North Korea or Iraq attacked us, then we would invade and destroy them. They know that and will not attack us.
You're a fool, and an enabler.
Right....
Look at the suicide bombings, beheadings, enslavements, burnings, mustard gasings, abusive class systems, rapes, church grenadings, holy site defilings, schoolchildren bombings, and shootings in Indonesia, the Phillipines, Nigeria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, etc., that have been accelerating for the past decade... then come back and tell us how rational these slaughters have been... then you will have the answer to why North Korea and Iraq would attack.
And when did the North Koreans last attack us? How about Iraq?
Well, there's the Pueblo Incident.
Well, there was the infamous "tree-cutting" incident of 1976. Seems that the North Koreans decided to go after some American soldiers that were cutting down trees in the DMZ.
And there's the more than occasional firefight that breaks out when we discover one of their invasion tunnels and try to seal it up.
And there's the NK's habit of infiltrating people into South Korea to commit terrorism.
And...and...
Have you tired of looking like a fool, yet?
ROFLMBO! You ignored the entire paragraph and repeated your ill-considered opinion. Again, please explain how the Rape of NanKing fits in with your "they know they will be attacked for it so they won't do it" premise. In fact, let's get even simpler. Try Pearl Harbor. Explain the logic behind that, since they KNEW, without doubt, that America would retaliate, and that we had the power to defeat them given time. Please.
You're a fool, and an enabler.
Right....
It's good that you agree.
And when did the North Koreans last attack us? How about Iraq?
Well, Iraq pays terrorists and their families to commit their atrocities... that includes al-Qaeda... which attacked US embassies in Africa, the USS Cole, the WTC (twice), American military barracks... but if you want a more direct example, you can look at the Iraqi release this week expressing how their "brave soldiers" have shot at Allied warplanes and drones over 500 times in the past few years. (or is their word not good enough for you?)
As for North Korea, they are following the same exact path as Saddam... thousands of dead and dying since the leaders are more interested in building weapons than in food and medicine... breaking their promises and treaties and blaming America for it... staging protests and marches calling for America's death... threatening to use WMD's... restarting their WMD programs, violating their own promises...
see a pattern, here? Now compare it to the precedent set by Nazi Germany, when they broke their defense treaties, threatened their neighbors, spent scarce resources on guns rather than butter, allowed weapons inspectors to look around while hiding their true abilities, developing the very first missiles and nuclear programs...
but you're right, North Korea hasn't actually invaded any innocent neighors recently (since they only border their greatest ally, China, and a nation with American tropps already stationed to protect it... hmmm, no THAT wouldn't have anything to do with it, now would it?)
Oh, I'm sorry; you mean we have to wait for them to physically attack us as opposed to making threats and motions in that direction?
Oh, gee. Thanks for setting us straight on that. I must have been foolish to feel threatened by a pair of tyrants who are trying to take over and/or destroy the planet...silly me.