IMO, those who advocate actions ( or lack of them) that can easily lead to nuclear war (whether they INTEND it, or not) should be called on their willingness to risk large numbers of human lives, and perhaps the survival of the species."

I don't find anything to disagree with in that statement. I just disagree with bruce as to whom those people are and what it is they are advocating. I think Simon Jenkins put it very well in the article I linked to a couple of posts ago:

"...Who knows that the Iraq war may seem a footling incompetence alongside the west's misjudgment of Russia over the past decade? Following cold war with cold peace may yet prove a historic error. And it was gratuitously unnecessary."