Not the Great Satan After All...

I have thought for a while that the United States has been, not the Great Satan, but rather the Great Hypocrite. How has it come to make sense that the U.S.A., with its thousands of nuclear (pronounced nookyoular) weapons, and its huge stockpiles of chemical and biological agents, can tell North Korea such weaponry is forbidden to it? Especially considering the United States has used its weaponry (Hiroshima, Nagasaki), and sold it to others to use (Saddam Hussein, e.g., against Iran). If North Korea does this, its called "proliferation"; as in "Non-Proliferation Treaty". I guess when the U.S. does it, it's called self-defense or something.
But I've begun to see all this in a somewhat different light.
Consider: North Korea last invaded a foreign country (well, South Korea isn't really so foreign, really) in 1949. Since the armistice North Korea (henceforward to be referred to as DPRK) has devoted most of its efforts to oppressing its own citizens. And face it, a nuclear bomb is not really suited to that sort of thing. Too much collateral damage, to say nothing of the public relations nightmare! So, why then does DPRK believe it needs all this fancy hardware? Are they afraid the United States might attack them?
In that span of fifty five years, come to think of it, the United States has attacked approximately a dozen foreign countries, some of them more than once. I say approximately because I may have overlooked a banana republic or two. We invade those countries so frequently it's hard to remember if this invasion is new or merely a continuation of a previous attack. I also omit to mention the various coups instigated by the CIA. Overthrowing a foreign government we don't approve of and replacing it with a government we end up also not liking. Like Manuel Noriega, or Shah Reza Pahlavi.
With all this military activity, it's pretty easy to see the United States really does need more lethal weaponry than DPRK, or Iran, or, well, than anybody. Good thing we have all that stuff. Although President Eisenhower warned against it, his successor presidents fearlessly increased the "defense" budget 'til the United States now posesses more megatonnage than the rest of humanity combined. And as we have seen, the current president isn't afraid to use his military. In fact, in the new, 1984-ish, all-war-all-the-time environment it seems likely we will need to at least brandish our WMD, to make sure everybody understands our commitment to freedom and democracy. Demonsrated by frequent mouthing of the now-empty shibboleth "free and open elections".
In a sidebar, I really do feel obligated to note the self-referential irony of George W. Bush lecturing Vladimir Putin on the dangers of attempting to concentrate too much power in the presidency.
I sometimes wish I could just do cartoons, because words fail me; but I can visualize some wonderful pictures. Fortunately we are blessed with some puckish genius political cartoonists. Some of them have links here, over on the left side.