[john70t]

Not sure if the current administrations past acceptance of limited nuclear usage and policy of pre-emptive strikes help the situation much in terms of diplomacy on the public level.

The fact is: eventually "we'll all have to get along" because Iran/Korea/etc.. are going to be nuke-capable, partially out of fear, but mostly out of the status of becoming one of the world player "big-boys".
Either that, or we level a whole lot of dirt now, and hard, and prepare for massive retribution from multiple sources.

But with the current US economic fragility, and the deficit sinkhole the republicans have pulled us into, and (oh yeah that competance thing), our cards have all been put on the table. We "have" to import computer and medical techs at the top, and laborers at the bottom because for the last 2 decades our infrastructure $'s have been spent on porkbarrel.

Such talk is the useless posturing of a teenage punk on a street corner.