It seems to me if action is not taken soon we'll all be asking how we let this happen and why we didn't see this coming. Yet it's all self-evident. This is like a failure of nerve and to me resembles the Rape of Nanking (See the book by Iris Chang) in that the Chinese soldiers allowed themselves to be slaughtered and to give up to small numbers of Japanese who would march them out and chop their heads off. Instead today, we have repeated assaults on civilization by Iran and Syria and the US and Israel don't take effective action to stop these attacks, even as Iran boasts that it intends to wipe Israel out. It's suicidal to the degree of insanity. And the American war on George Bush has made the US nearly impotent.
I guess the question is: not whether one has nuclear weapons, but rather, who's willing to use them? We have them, but are reluctant. They may acquire them and are eager. This fact, and this fact alone, would bear heavily upon my reluctance.
You got that right! The problem is that one side has been fighting, and the other side has been appeasing. In my opinion, the tendency of Republicans to try to appease Democrats in favor of a "New Tone" has been the very rope which the Dems will hang them with. It is hard to feel sorry for someone who just rolls over and pees himself when faced by a bully. The first time, maybe it's turning the other cheek. What they don't realize is you only have two cheeks to turn, then you have to fight back.