What I meant to say plaw, was that I knew you were'nt seriously advocating invasion of Burma, China, E. Guinea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe and Mongolia to solve the problems that are emanating from these countries that affect the U.S.A., Canada, the West and the whole world.
You did, however, present the countries that Parade magazine highlighted as threats to world peace and showed that through diplomatic and/or other non violent these threats must be dealt with. Of course diplomatic solutions to the Palestinian/Israeli, Irish/British, Turkish/Greek, Indian/Pakistani conflicts and the internal struggles within Russia and the other former Soviet Republics must be sought as well.
As for Iraq, as you have pointed out that is a whole other discussion for about fifty other threads and I'm not going to touch on it here.
Of course you were not joking about the very serious problems that have arisen in the failed or failing states that have been mentioned but perhaps I misinterpreted your overall tone as somewhat satirical. It is very difficult to deal with matters such as this and when one injects humour into the patient as I attempted to do, one must be ultra careful.
The sad conclusion I've come to is that at the end of the day, week, month and year all we (the masses who have some power but not enough direct power to effect change) can do is hold our noses, vote, and hope and pray for the best. Peace on Earth!