[BOfH]

It's a chess game with nuclear pieces, and checkmate may end in mutually assured destruction. There is no surprise we talk the talk but don't walk the walk, our "We can have them but you can't" policy failed with Pakistan, and will probably fail with Iran as well. As quoted by QP JJ_BPK in another recent thread "Its easier to let the cat out of the bag than to put it back in", we tried that same policy with firearms and other things, funny how the same people who we target with the "you can't have it" somehow end up with it anyhow, and those who can/should are usually stonewalled. I believe it was one of the very inventors of the atom bomb who said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results"...