Well, now we have nukes to play brinkmanship with. So what happens when our nation decides, and it will, probably much sooner than any of us cares to think, to throw negotiations out the window, and just nuke the nation we don't like?

No, we need to study and commit ourselves to non-violent means of working out our disagreements, and of containing empires and despots. War isn't the answer now, and it won't be in the future. The costs to societies are much too high, and the payback doesn't justify it.

42 million people are uninsured in this country. Schools are overcrowded and underfunded, and fewer and fewer middle and low income families can afford to send kids to college each year. Affordable housing doesn't exist in most major metro areas where the urban poor are concentrated. Police and fire departments, the coast guard--all woefully underfunded.

There are so many social demands for government tax dollars that are going unmet, just to fund the bloated military industrial complex, which does very little to enhance the military security of our citizentry. As a nation, we won't be able to ignore those problems forever, if we wish to retain the standard and quality of life we have. There is no security for a citizenry besieged by the problems being ignored, because it just puts the problems in our neighborhoods, in our schools, on our streets.

We might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks in certain parts of the US, but that is inevitable in this day and age. What we aren't in danger of is invasion. The genuine security issues the nation faces have been put aside by fear mongerers, to further the economic and power interests of the securocrats.