True. We've obviously resigned ourselves to the fact that our enemies are arming themselves rapidly and dangerously, and because we lack world support, we do not feel we can do anything about it. So I guess this means we have to wait for a few hundred thousand of our citizens to die agonizing deaths, have our entire economy destroyed - and then maybe we'll finally be "justified" in responding.
Sorry, it's not a good plan. The thing that the author of this article seems not to grasp is that, for one thing, these nutcases don't care if they and their countries get vaporized. Their goal is to inflict as much damage as possible and bring us down. China and Russia believe they are safe, and, frankly, they've always managed so much deniability that they would be. As for the Muslim world, they're all crazy; and so is North Korea.
I'd rather have a policy that told them right up front that any sign of nuclear weaponry would mean massive bombing of any place we believe it to exist. And then we have to carry through and actually do this.
I don't think the author took a position on military action but argued absent that action and Iran acquiring nukes current US nuclear deterrent strategy is no good...I think you both agree in the main.
The current plan is no good that's for sure.
Not sure where Bush is on this whether he will use military action or not...