… Or that our soldiers -- our sons and daughters -- are...

… Or that our soldiers -- our sons and daughters -- are dying everyday in Iraq at the hands of an enemy that fights in sandals and makes bombs in the back of somebody\'s garage. Am I the only one who wonders: Why don\'t we just nuke \'em? What good is all that shock and awe hardware if we aren\'t willing to use it to spare our own children from murderous butchers like the ones who mutilated two American soldiers in Iraq last week?

Why do we waste our breath bargaining with nut balls like Kim Jong Il when in a blink of an eye we could make him disappear? The answer: Because we know as well as our enemies do that we\'ll never push the button. And so our amazingly potent hardware does us no good in deterring threats from rogue regimes. America will never launch the Big One, unless someone drops a big one on us first. Finley\'s article is delusional on a number of levels, not least because the U.S.

is the only country that has used nuclear weapons, not only once, but twice against Japan during WWII. This use of "shock and awe hardware" was started by the U.S.-America never was responding to a nuclear attack when it used its weapons of mass destruction on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Finley goes on to state that the solution to deterring "regimes like Iran and North Korea" is the design and use of "smaller nukes" on those countries.

With such an openly aggressive pro-Israel stance, it should have been no surprise that Finley would have supported Israel\'s assault on Lebanon.

In an article titled, "Israel\'s Right to Defense," Finley wrote, "The cries that Israel is wreaking a humanitarian disaster in Lebanon, wantonly killing innocents and destroying homes and infrastructure, are reaching a hysterical pitch." In a superb example of double-talk, Finley said that Israel had to be allowed to destroy Hizbullah, otherwise the "Lebanese people [would be] as vulnerable as they were before the fighting began." Finely added: When the smoke clears, Israel must have a wide buffer between itself and Hezbollah\'s Iranian supplied rockets.

If Lebanon can\'t guarantee that safe space, then Israel must be free to do it itself. … Compounding the hazard is Israel\'s tiny size. It\'s less than one-sixth the area of Michigan, with roughly the same amount of people. The enemy is always within shooting distance. If nothing else, we have relearned during the past two weeks that as long as there are Jews in the Middle East, someone will try to kill them.