That strategic fact of life and death invites the question that coolly consistent sophists love to ask: If we are disinclined to attack the nuclear buildup in North Korea, why are we hot to attack a somewhat less imminent threat of mass destruction from Iraq? Saddam Hussein is a recent, serial aggressor, while totalitarian North Korea has not launched an invasion in the past half-century.
We're talking about LG's G2, just announced today (and involved in some PR shenanigans before it even became official), the Nexus 7 (Google's latest, which Chris and I both went out and bought even though we really don't need anymore tablets), the Moto X and BlackBerry's somewhat baffling and imminent BBM for Android and iOS launch.
Andrew Mueller America's Got Talent comes to an end tonight, somewhat overshadowed by the imminent arrival of The X Factor USA and right-on sing-along The Voice.
(In fact, the certainty that the novel's explosive finale must be the earthquake shadows the plot somewhat unhelpfully, casting its own imminent coloration on everything).
The French papers reported regularly, and somewhat gleefully, that Galliano's departure was imminent.
Sitting in the sun with Eunice and her neighbours outside her house, in a yard in which chickens peck in the red dirt, she explained to me, somewhat hesitantly, her current plan for the imminent arrival.
A senior administration official said they concluded that the chances of an imminent test were low to somewhat higher than low, chiefly because a test would so anger the Chinese -- the North's only significant supplier of food and fuel.
As mentioned above, it was also evident that some respondents' motivation to comply with the perceived beliefs of lecturers or fellow students lessened somewhat as the student internship became more imminent.
REUTERS American Airlines and Chapter 11 Speculation | Fears over an imminent bankruptcy at American Airlines may be somewhat premature, Reuters writes, citing analysts who do not think the airline's troubles necessarily add up to a Chapter 11 filing.
As Israeli officials expressed fears in recent days that a surge in violence was imminent, their comments about the Palestinian leadership became somewhat less critical.
