Just as well that most of the "fellow travellers" posting here never have any responsibility for the security of their nations. With their views as to what constitutes a threat, or more importantly a potential threat in being, the nations, whose security, they might be responsible for would be rendered impotent and vulnerable within a remarkably short time.

Also just for the record, the declared reason for the US regarding Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, as being a threat was not based solely on it being perceived as a direct threat to the US, but to the United States of America, the allies of the United States of America and to interestes regarded as being vital to the United States of America.