Should we hit them now? Yes, maybe. Perhaps after a we do a little more work on orbiting lasers, etc., identify where their forces are, their ships are, their missiles are, and hit them first, hard. With nukes? Yes. Now's our chance.
I'm not bloodthirsty, by any means. This is the last thing in the world I wanted. But I do want a future for us and it's beginning to look pretty bleak with the whole world aligning against us.
There may be one or even several fully armed nuclear weapons controlled by Moslem or Al Queda forces. In a battlefield scenario, honor, and respect for the destructive power of war is absorbed by the participants. If they think that they can sit back on lawn chairs and just point their fingers and bomb the world then they will never prove their honor, they will never recover their lost dignity, and they will not ascend to "manhood" or "adulthood".
A premptive nuclear strike is effeminate. The end result is that we never got into the enemy's space, we never locked horns, and our eyes never met. The end result is great devestation with no honor. No resentments were vanquished, and no vendetta's were settled.
The purpose of war is to step onto a battlefield with our hated enemy and suffer bloody war together. It is on that battlefield that we prove ourselves unworthy of their hate. Perhaps they say, "they fight like cowards, their men are faggots, they sleep with their mother's, or they have no honor." It all depends on whatever cultural paradigm of honor is true for those people.
American honor is powerful. We must convey this to our enemies who have not grasped the honor code that exists around nuclear weapons. The war waged is of ideas and paradigms regarding honor. That honor is not conveyed to the rest of the world, perhaps because we were slack in other areas. Especially chivalry, and fidelity. We will see that we learn difficult lessons from war.
war is not golf!