It's time for us to take more serious action here ...

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Raven

you cannot just pre emptively wipe them off the face of the earth
before they fire the first missle....

if we did that we would be in the wrong and then
have earned the imperialist bad guys name

"you cannot just pre emptively wipe them off the face of the earth
before they fire the first missle"

The hell you can't.

There is no international law, no section of the Geneva Convention, no particle of common sense, that says you let the other guy punch you in the nose first, before you hit back.

How many lives would you be willing to sacrifice before you gave the order? You'd wait for a missile to land in Manhattan before you retaliate?

I'm not saying it's going to come to that. I'm saying there's no glory in letting the other guy break your nose before you put your hands up and take a swing.