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You just don’t understand the complexities of the 21st century.

Quite obviously, you haven't even mastered the lessons of the Cold War and the nuclear standoff of the era.

Terrorist cannot build nukes. Only large industrialized countries can. Small countries can if they have help. So American and Russia and China, yes. Britain and France, barely. Israel, with American help and money. The Pakis, with Korean technical info and Saudi money. The Saudis, with our looking the other way and with their Paki technicians and African ore suppliers. Iran, with Soviet and Chinese help.

Any nuke exploded over an American city will bring retaliation against the country that manufactured it, probably in less than six hours which is about how long it will take to identify the source of the isotopes in the fallout. In less than an hour if it is a missile launch and we can trace its source.

You live in a little bubble-world of post-9/11 hysteria. Anything and everything can be justified by your corny little Tom Clancy narrative of suitcase nukes.

The real world does not operate that way and it never has.

The real danger is meddling in the Mideast and in the sovereignty of these countries until we have inadvertently created a half-dozen Irans (with names like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc.). And we are very near to that now.

As the dollar crisis looms over business and industry, threatening recession or even depression, you'll find it's not so easy to frighten the public into invasions, nationbuilding, bombing campaigns, bank bailouts, corporate bailouts, Pill Bills, ethanol subsidies, shipping planeloads of cash to Iraq, supporting Islamic tyrants, etc.

And that time has come. Only one man in the race has stood steadfast for decades against all of those things.

Ron Paul is right. He always was.

Right.

I give up.

I'll put back all the books I studied as a Military History major and years of keeping track of Military tactics and technology and surrender as it were to you Paul supporters. You guys like that anyways.....

Oh, but a few questions.

Is Iran an industrialized nation or a terrorist state?

How about Pakistan, I mean they have Nukes as has been acknowledged on this very thread. They are stable now, so I don't know. Teach me what all that means...

Oh and can terrorist steal nukes?

Also you say we will respond, which I hope we do, but can you find any cities to volunteer to be the one blasted by a nuke we could have prevented if we had take an aggressive stance? It could save some paper work and planning on Iran's or whomever part...

I am sure an expert with your level of knowledge has those answers so you can enlighten me...

(BTW the irony of your post is the number of times I have had to explain that the total disregard for their own lives is what causes the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction to not be applicable to containing the nukes if Iran goes hot and why only an aggressive solution will do)