I'm less concerned about the video, as I am with the trend it shows, we're seeing more and more intense, anti-US propaganda, rallying people against us and our interests (which we have not been taking care of) without any real retalation from the US goverment. A lot of this stuff having gone from "free speech" to outright threats, and I'm of the opinion that no matter what a country might look like now, we should be wary of threats coming from nations attempting to build a tech and/or power base.
When it comes to North Korea we really should take these guys out, because to be honest it doesn't matter if the people are starving if the goverment develops the technologies they are after, they still represent a threat. It's fun to laugh at their failures, but understand once they succeed it's arguably too late to really do a whole lot, which is what they are counting on. Likewise China backing them shouldn't matter so much because China is hardly an ally to The Western World which I think even hard core left wingers are slowly waking up to. It being better to act now against both of them than it is to wait until such action becomes nearly impossible.
I feel the same way about Iran, for very similar reasons.
Overall, I think we should pretty much just let Isreal have free reign to take out Iran and anyone else who gets out of line in the region, perhaps helping with the initial strikes to wreck their infrastructure and tech base, and then pull out and focus our interests and military on the far east which presents a far more direct, if "soft power" (for the most part) threat.
I'll probably get dozens of responses to this in the negative, but I'm not going to respond to them, since I'm just stating my thoughts rather than looking for a huge arguement on the subject. To me this kind of stuff is only hilarious before they actually succeed, and to be honest I think North Korea will continue right along, like "The Little Engine That Could", no matter how bad their famine gets, until they do have the abillity to mount WMD on a missle and deliver it either conventionally or via a space program. Something I feel also applies to Iran.
I'm less concerned with winning global popularity contests at the moment, than the US taking care of it's own interests and security at the moment, which is something I'mnot going to argue about right now as I said.
