It's right here in front of us but nobody is willing to look at it...
We're being confronted, right now, with the alternatives of conducting pre-emptive strikes against the personnel and facilities of these third-world ratholes that are developing nukes, or ending up with (at best) a nuclear exchange between bug countries somewhere, or (at worst) one of their infernal machines getting smuggled into the U.S. and detonated here.
After one goes off, of course, there will be endless wails of "We could have prevented this if [fill in name of President here] had had the courage to act", etc., blah blah... but RIGHT NOW is when we are able to take advantage of the opportunity of averting disaster. RIGHT NOW. We are living RIGHT NOW in the time to which all the howling pundits of the future will point and self-righteously waggle their fingers.
Any bets on whether we'll just sit here and wait for the inevitable, because it's easier and more politically "Safe" in the short term to just sit and wait for an event that will take hundreds of thousands of lives, than it is to bomb North Korea's and Iran's (and maybe Pakistan's) nuclear facilities and assassinate a few rogue scientists and take the resulting arrogant condescending condemnation from Dan Rather?
"No new wars until after the election." - Stated policy of the Bush administration.