Free Republic

What would we do if a freely-elected Muslim theocracy came to power in Pakistan? What would we do if Iran suddenly announced that it possessed several nuclear weapons and the missile technology to deliver them? According to the Bush* Doctrine, we'd have to eliminate the potential threat with military action. This doctrine cannot possibly be consistently applied to all potentially-threatening, Iraq-like situations. At $200 billion a pop, these actions would have a significant effect on the economy. The cost to our foreign relations and world image would be incalculable. One shudders to think of the sinister plots that each action...