  Where is the Left on North Korea? For an ideological bent that claims in their collective loudest voice to care about people's rights, who will go to the edges of the Earth to support abortion, and who will send out thousands of attorneys in an election to make sure minorities do not feel the least uncomfortable at the polls, they are silent...almost stone silent, about the urlLink atrocities of Kim Jong Il . I often come to internal loggerheads about such things. There's a part of Realpolitik in me that says we should contain, contain, and contain until we cannot contain any more. Then there's the other more Wilsonian part of me that says that all tyrants should be deposed, and left to their fate at the hands of those they oppressed.
We have two Stalinists dictators in the crosshairs right now. Millions have died at their hands. Yet, the whole "War is Not the Answer" crowd (led by the expert generalship of none other than Sheryl Crow) finds some sort of emotional satisfaction at making sure that any efforts to free these people are thwarted. The people who live under dictators lack one primary, and decisive thing that we take for granted, and that's the vote. A prerequisite for the vote is freedom. Once they have the vote, they deserve the leader they get. Regardless, when people vote, they don't knowingly vote for butchers. But no serious person believes that Saddam Hussein actually got 100% of the vote.
Neither did Castro, or any other "president" or "premier" in a totalitarian society. The antiwar left often asks why the people don't just change their leader, or why we don't just helicopter in to Baghdad and arrest Saddam. This, sadly, is a testament to their lost grasp on reality. When a perspective loses its grasp on reality, it no longer deserves consideration.
It only deserves contempt. If the freedom of those who are oppressed daily, tortured, and killed for no more than having the wrong opinion , among other things, is not worth a war, then nothing is. The United States is a country who liberates, not conquers. If we were conquerors, our colonies in Europe and Asia would be the first to tell you (note for any antiwar readers, we have colonies in neither Europe nor Asia). 
