The Times reported that the US Administration is claiming that the Syrian target hit by Israeli airstrikes in September 2007 was a nuclear reactor supplied by North Korea.
North Korea of course has developed nuclear weapons, in defiance of promises to the international community. It utters rhetoric constantly calling for death to the USA, Japan and south Korea. It has now been caught selling nuclear technology to Syria.
Syria is an enemy of Israel, sponsors terrorism, invaded and ran Lebanon as an extension of itself for years.
However, that doesn't matter.
It isn't the United States, United Kingdom or any other Western liberal democratic state.
It is basically a rule of thumb that if anti-Western autocracies engage in war-mongering, it doesn't get the so-called peace movement excited. They excuse it because "well the USA has nuclear weapons", granting moral equivalency between a regime that brutally suppresses dissent and does not permit independent media or protests, and the relatively free West.
Update
On Syria it is more palpable. The so-called "peace" movement happily rallies thousands to march against Western intervention in Syria, but never protest against Russian arming and assisting the Syrian regime, or Qatar or Saudi doing the same to the rebels.
No, you see "imperialism" is just ok for Arab states, Iran, Russia or indeed any country that doesn't share the political or cultural background of the Western world.
As it was in the Cold War, when the so-called "peace" movement constantly rallied against Western military spending and activity, and never protested the Soviet bloc, or China, is how it is today.
So-called "peace" activists are blind to militarism and violence from dictatorships that aren't allied to the West. They are simply reconstructed anti-capitalist fans of violent revolution, and their self-styled calls for morality and peace are transparently vacuous.
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The cold war peace movement - along with their makes the miners union strikers and CND - were traitors funded by the then soviet union.
They are all traitors now. If Maggie (or Muldoon) had taken the excellent advice from the Army at the time, and machine-gunned the leftist scum, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
There's only one way to deal with communists. Always was, always will be. MacArthur could have saved the world 50 years of horror if the US had just nuked Russia before the commies got the bomb.
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