Anyone who is threatened by this plan is akin to a criminal who is threatened when the police decide to clean up a crime-infested neighborhood.
Exactly. Preemption should be a key part of our strategy.
Here is historical justification:
"Operation BRAVO
A generation ago, the White House was gripped by reports that "Red" China was preparing to build its own nuclear weapons.
It called for the United States to prevent the People's Republic from building a nuclear weapon by launching a secret attack against a weapons plant in north central China.
The plan was vetoed on the urging of the State Department. China went forward with its nuclear weapons program, exploding its first device (right) at its Lop Nor test site on Oct. 16, 1964."
"Soon after the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear bomb in August of 1949, the United States decided it needed to learn more about the types of weapons its enemy was building."
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If we had gone in and bombed their nuclear facilities AT THE BEGINNING in a PREEMPTIVE strike, we could have avoided 50 years of cold war. Just think about it!
THIS is why we had to take out Iraq and all other rogue nations supporting terrorists and building WMD.
(Historical info from thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891395/posts Greatest secrets of cold war)