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In my opinion -- no. Bin Laden and Iran know it too. And that's why they will likely succeed in destroying western civilization. Because we have lost the will to survive. We'll only have ourselves to blame.

A blunt appraisal and the brutal truth that few will want to confront.

As an aside, during WWII, General Lemay informed our War Department that he had run out of targets to bomb in Japan. That was a major reason that Hiroshima was bombed; because it was relatively unscathed. Toyko had nearly been burnt to the ground and a nuke on it wouldn't have impressed the Japanese government that a nuke would hurt them any more than they had already been hurt by conventional bombing. By showing the utter destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki it became evident to the Emperor of Japan that further resistance was futile and that's when he put a stop the carnage by speaking to the Japanese people for the first time in their lives. But that almost didn't happen because the hard liners in the government insisted on resisting to the last Japanese. That is a matter of historical record.

I am beginning to have some very real concerns about Bush's backbone. As far as I am concerned we should give Iran an ultimatum. Either end their nuclear program now or we will end it for them NOW!!