Kim Jong Il Thinks He's a God-King: Why Ignore It?

[Brad De Long]

>Not at all; if they're not an objective military threat than they're 
>not an objective military threat, whether they know it or not.
>
>Say that Luxembourg were to fall under the power of psychopaths 
>dedicated to world conquest.  It wouldn't entail that the US would 
>be justified in planting a giant military force in Frankfurt to 
>defend the Bundesrepublik from the Luxembourgian Menace.

Why not? Wouldn't it be better to *deter* a Luxemburger attack than 
to have to fight one off? People get killed in wars, and lots of 
times wars end in unexpected ways...