Some People are Just No Good ...

In case you weren't looking the Pakistanis have 100 nuclear weapons or thereabouts according to military estimates made in 2000. Al-Qaeda leaders have plans for those nuclear weapons should they destabilize Pakistan. Friendly folks that they are their plans include using those things on the United States. It's not altogether clear why they think we're the ones that should be nuked? I suppose the sin of not approving of their desire to wipe Israel off the map and a certain unwillingness to accept that strapping bombs on your children to kill the neighbors you don't like is rational behavior might have something to do with it. CHECK OUT Al-Qaida's Intentions.

Being an unreconstructed imperialist, my tendency would be to apply the Roman solution which seemed to work on Carthage pretty well. At least Carthage never bothered the Romans again. This bunch are sheer insanity. We play around with them as if they are rational and it's just a little disagreement or they're just a different kind of criminal (read them their rights and get them a lawyer). But the reality is that they are not rational being rather more like rabid beasts with a propensity to attack and attack and attack.

The nuclear danger is heightening as Iranians strive to get the bomb. Pakistan has scores of bombs that could be in danger of capture if things go badly. North Korea is supplying Iran and has detonated a bomb and is testing missile delivery systems.

The world is a very dangerous place and getting more dangerous by the day. We should take it seriously and stop playing patty cake.