[MaximusRules]

Excellent question with some very subtle implications about threatening the entire proliferating network as a group if a rogue state transfer nukes to terrorists and there is a resultant WMD event in the US...the idea is that the risks of the proliferators become shared as is their cooperation in the network, and that might put the rogues states at odds with one another.... Rummy's answer on video demonstrated some interest in the concept while the transcript shows he is skeptical about deterring Korea and Iran absent strong international will.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Problem is, once you talk up the team on the Axis of Evil, and two of the axis of evil already gained, or will soon have obtained nuclear capability, and we don't, haven't, or won't do a whole lot about it, the team's momentum seems to deflate.

And don't come at me about using the UN for sanctions line. I'm sick of hearing about that. Cheney is getting old and thinking about writing a book, Wolfowitz flew the coop to the world bank. We've had five years of GWOT, about the same as WWII, and people want to see results. That is the only way to get the momentum back, if possible. After the Nov elections, Bush needs to clean house, and put out one last crush against the sectarian violence. Take out Al Sadr and his army, divide Iraq up into Shia and Sunni, and Kurds to the north. Give assistance to whomever straightens up.

As for Afghanistan, things are coming along a little better.