Iran vows to hit any country that stages attack

[quakerboy]

97. Other than observing the attitudes of our political leaders, no

But those observations make it fairly apparent, in my opinion. From McCain singing "bombombom Iran" to Santorum's comments about how they are coming for Missouri, It seems fairly clear that Iran is their next target. The past makes it clear that war, even bloody, wastefully, pointless war, is not something they have any interest in shying away from, as long as there is the prospect for money to be made and power to be gained.

As to north Korea, why would we invade them? They don't have anything we particularly want, and it might just piss off China, who is a big bad no matter which way you cut it. Plus now they apparently have Nukes, so there is that added to the reasons not to bring that conflict active. Iran does have resources we might like to control, and China doesn't particularly care for them.

Whether a state is attempting to get nuclear weapons is tangential to whether our homegrown warmongers want to invade them. Our reasons for conflict with Iran have little to nothing to do with whether they are developing nukes. Otherwise Pakistan and North Korea would never have been allowed to join the nuclear club.