When you're dealing with the Cold War and you had adversaries, you could deter them from aggression by threatening what they valued, their homeland, which we did throughout the Cold War. Here, you're dealing with somebody who doesn't have anything they value. Deterrence doesn't work. Negotiations don't work. The only way to deal with it is to destroy them, and the quicker the better. Plain talk from our esteemed Vice President, and welcome words!
Dick Cheney rides again....