[rdb3]

Ah, I'm supposed to let the guy put a bullet through my brain BEFORE shooting him. Got it.

Yeah, if that were to happen you sure would have "got it." But by then it's too late.

[hchutch]

Yep. Put to a national level, it means you take a hit first, and quite proabbly a lot of innocent lives get lost. In return, you feel better taking out a few million other innocent folks because "we didn't fire the first shot."

Ronald Reagan asked, when SDI was being developed, "Wouldn't it be better to save lives than to avenge them?"

I'd pose the same question to the paleo-cons and the so-called progressives.