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Sane people don't scare me with nukes. Insane people do. I regard the leaders of N. Korea and Iran to be insane. You are attempting to apply logic to those that are not logical. You are attempting to apply economic sense to those who don't care about economics. The "kooks with nukes" phrase spells out exactly why we must be prepared - kooks aren't exactly predictable. Should North Korea decide to do something stupid like nuke Japan, or should Iran be far ahead of where we believe they are with regards to acquiring nukes and take out Isreal, or somehow they got one into LA, the buzz would be that not enough attention was paid to those two countries and that we didn't do enough to prevent it. Isn't that what happened with 9/11? Why weren't we more prepared? Shouldn't we have been able to prevent it?
What bothers me, and I do it as well, is second guessing everything. Whenever something bad happens, the cry is that we should have been able to prevent it. If we are actively working to prevent cetain things, and nothing on those fronts happens, then often the cry is that we are doing too much to stop something that is not the threat. It's a no win.
I do not fear a direct invasion by the Chinese anymore than I feared a direct invasion by the Soviets. However, I do fear what will happen when China decides to finally invade Taiwan.
As far as economic, crippling the US economy would bring great joy to Kim Jong Ill and Iran's guy (I just have no idea how to spell his name), as well as to a whole bunch of other smaller players in the world, like a Syria or the Palestinians or Chavez in Venezuela or Cuba or.....the list goes on and on. China needs our dollars in trade too much to directly attack us, and I believe that fact alone is why they have yet to invade Taiwan.
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