[oceanview]

we hit Pakistan. Pakistan is the source of all of these nuclear programs: Iran, Libya, North Korea, Iraq. The root of all of these is Pakistan.

[larlaw]

While you may be right that Pakistan may be the source of all these programs, I am worried that the genie is already out of the bottle, so to speak. Do we just hit their nuclear facilities, or hit civilian targets? The problem is that the current government is at least a nominal ally, and by hitting them with nukes we very possibly assure Musharraf's fall and replacement by a more radical Islamic government that may try to launch or disseminate their nukes to terrorists or terrorist states even more.

The bigger question regarding retaliation for a suitcase nuke in the U.S. is whether we respond in kind with nukes, and if so where do we target them???