God help us. Just listen to yourself for a second: "We have enemies with WMDs! We must immediately launch a first strike!"
Douglas MacArthur would agree, I'm sure, but with all due respect, if anyone in our government since 1950 had subscribed to these views, we would all be dead.
Add Sun Tzu's The Art of War to your reading list. The greatest level of skill in war is to defeat your enemy without even fighting a battle. Skirmishes aside, we did that in the Cold War, which was a greater existential threat than these bozos. What humans have done, humans can aspire to.
As for "doing nothing", neither I nor anyone else on this board said that. You didn't ask what *I* thought we should do. Are you interested? Or would you rather wallow in indignation?
I've read them all, and still check them on an occassional basis. I fear you've fallen under bad influences, my friend.
I am well aware of the existence of an entire subculture that has convinced itself of the need for extreme measures. I posit that groupthink is not limited by the size of the group, nor is groupthink justified by the size of its group. For instance, take the 'consensus' that Kyoto is the proper response to global warming; I do believe the evidence for G.W. is correct, but Kyoto is the worst kind of nonsense. Yet there is a huge groupthink mind out there that simply accepts Kyoto as the next thing to Holy Writ.
I could point out that the Iranian President is not the head of the Iranian government, and that he is coming under increasing criticism from the ayatollahs for the extreme position of his foreign policy and the lunacy of his sect. I could point out that Russia hates al-Qaeda every much as we do, for al-Q supports the Chechen rebels that have launched terror attacks into Moscow itself. I could point out that Russia is merely selling parts to Iran, which is a long way from advocating first strike attacks, and that they stopped defending Iran in the Security Council.
But I'm beginning to doubt that you're going to listen to rational arguments. Please convince me otherwise.