CarolC,

"So if this is your logic, how do you propose to stop what you consider inevitable without destroying the whole of the Islamic world? Of course, I think that might be what you are really advocating... "

I have not been advocating this- the Iranians ARE. THIS IS THE STATEMENT OF THE IRANINS. YOU have been saying that they would be totally destroyed, yet THEY do not think so- SO NO DETERRENT.

"There are many people who, like you, will not consider the job complete until all of the Muslim world is destroyed"

YOU are the one who insists that we allow the situation to become one where nuclear war becomes a reality, NOT ME. I HAVE NEVER STATED, nor implied, that ANY nation SHOULD be destroyed- while those YOU say SHOULD have nuclear weapons HAVE stated that.

"You and people like you are creating a self-fulling prophecy. "

Actually, I think that YOU and people like you are trying to create a world where Israel has ONLY the choice between being destroyed and destroying those who attack them- While I would rather see one where the threats to Israel's existance are not ignored. I feel that peace is still possible- YOU appear to think that only the destruction of the state of Israel will "solve" the problem.