MGOH, CarolC, Little Hawk and others have stated in other words more or less what Kevin says here:

"The USSR has been wiped off the map. So has Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, and Yugoslavia. Before then countries across Africa such as the Gold Coast, Bechuanaland and Tanganyika. Go back further and there was the Austro-Hungarian Empire...the Confederate States of America, the Republic of Texas...

All gone from the maps, together with numerous others. Not one of those countries exists any longer. But the places are still all there, and the same people and their descendants are living there today. None of them needed to be nuked to remove them from the atlas. Apartheid South Africa exists still within the same boundaries, but it is a totally different country, and the old South Africa now seems like a bad dream."

That is the appeasers mantra, the excuse and justification for burying heads in the sand and ignoring a serious problem that is developing.

I have a question for all of you who offer up such drivel regarding what holocaust denier Ahmadinejad meant when he said, "As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,"

Now put yourself in the place of an eighty year old Polish Jew who since his liberation from Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 has lived in Israel, tell me what you think the President of Iran meant, tell me if you would trust his word, or would you go on what the charter of both Hamas and Hezbollah clearly state as their intention.