Yeah, you're right JB, but what else are we going to do?

I mean, the "practical situation" is that everyone else in the world that has nuclear weapons, is pretty much committed to "not using them".

The Russkies, the Chinese, even the Indos and Pakis, all have said that they wouldn't use 'em.

The Israelis are an exception, and the Mullahs are an exception.

Friggin' great, right? The little guy that everyone hates, and the biggest guy on the block who hates 'em.

I think, that this is another area where Bushie has completely dropped the ball, 'cause even though I give him decent marks in general for his "non-proliferation" efforts (as per the other thread), it's like, "where's our diplomacy"? Bushie's deal so far seems to be "hands-off" of Syria and Palestine and Lebanon - just leave that whole thing up to the Israelis - and it occurs to me that he should be sending his main lady Condi to engage in some freakin' diplomacy over there, or something....

But yeah, have you been following the topic of the other thread over in "World News" about the Syrian thing? That's a pretty spectacular piece of "news", something's going on over there, and I have a feeling that intel is scrambling even as we speak... the nasties are at it again.

So yeah, you're right, it's a double standard, but it's one of those things like, "what else are you gonna do?" It's kinda like supporting the regimes of foreign dictators and so on - "ideologically" you can say that's a good thing or not, but "practically" you have to look at it in terms of a "point of diminishing returns" on the relationship and the engagement -

I mean, Manuel Noriega would be a perfect example, right?