Questions to Ponder

The anti-missile system planned for Eastern Europe: Really, what rogue states exactly can reach that part of the world is the system designed to defenda against? North Korea? Pakistan? Iran? But, really, not Russia?

Next:

Let's you're an Iraqi person on the street. And the West -- well, the U.S. and Britain, really, and the U.N. to a far lesser extent -- hammered you for ten years or so, including sanctions and the odd gratuitous bombing of Bagdhad. And then, for no good reason, you're invaded mostly by those two then occupied, with such state as you had destroyed. How would that make you feel when you saw soldiers from those two countries? How happy are you to be occupied? Even when you'd see soldiers from those two countries protecting you (after destroying schools and hospitals and cities and killing or causing or enabling the deaths of at least tens, if not hundreds of thousands)?