There will be no recourse for Armageddon if everyone thinks like you FrankC.
What's the matter........feeling powerless these days?
Do you WANT your kids growing up here in America....free and healthy?
So, what about diplomacy and carry through?
What about boundaries and responsilities?
What about setting an example and living it?
Gain international support that way.
To reject treaties, refuse to work with the international community, and bull doze your way through EVERYTHING, REALLY sets a bad example.
Other countries will mimic this irresponsibility AND recklessness.

>Sadam will work with the radical muslims and they will wind up nuking a city.

He may very well be planning it. Especially if we plan on taking out his country.
He wouldn't have to do it, as we are gaining more and more enemies every day.
(I worry about Pakistan and their radicals over there, than I do Iraq.....)

OUR rhetoric is that ALL Muslims are bad. They're all just filthy, uneducated heathens (Why, just ask SDAI, our Middle East expert). When you threaten someone, there is a RE-ACTION.
If you're not guilty, it builds anger and ambivalence. And if you've been threatened, then you have to build an offense and this creates more hostility. It regenerates. (just ask our regeneration expert).

With the FIRST World Trade Center bombing and the Islamic fundamentalists that were allowed to stay in this country AND funnel money back and forth (especially through the Carlysle Group and a BCCI-affiliated bank in Houston), had people within the FBI and the current administration not been reaping rewards from some of these sleazy and dangerous deals, this 9/11 thing NEVER would have happened).
The fact that the Bush administration still covers-up ANY attempt to get to their records, shows that they're not just hiding it for "security" reasons, but more like "Save Their Own Asses" reasons.

>Maybe that will work or maybe it won't but thousands of ours will be dead and the next step will be armaggedon.

I disagree with you here.
I think we have been living under the nuclear umbrella for the past few decades, but there has been so much weapons proliferation, that we are soon to be acting like street gangs, and there will be fewer places to go for peace and safety. The first thing the US should do, is stop creating so many enemies, and start cleaning up our own cities and deporting these fundamentalists.
Each country COULD work towards quelling the more radical elements of society, but CO-OPERATION is needed worldwide for this to be effective.
People who only see the "Well, if a nuclear bomb goes off we'll just blow up_________fill in the blank here, ans so and so will retaliate, and then so and so will get involved, and we'll have a smoldering cinder block that was once a beautiful earth, and you will have no-one to thank for that except "military minds" .....acting out of desperation for failed political policies over Guns, Oil and/or Drugs (GOD by any other name).
I'm with Bowser on this discussion.