RE: US backs first-strike attack plan

The US will not shy away from attacking regimes it considers hostile, or groups it believes have nuclear or chemical weapons, the White House has confirmed.

I want someone to tell me exactly what the difference is between this policy and what we used to call "Soviet Adventurism" back in the 1970s. I spent a measurable portion of my life in the US military fighting against this kind of garbage. I have to say I don't appreciate the neo-cons indulging in Orwellian doublespeak that says it's acceptable as long as we're doing it.

I fully recognize the threat to our security that Islamism represents, but I can't say I'm very happy about Bush and his buddies playing a life-sized game of Risk while completely ignoring the security of our borders (and ports). And who, exactly, named us the world's gun-control enforcers? Are the neo-cons so satisfied with their efforts to build the nanny-state here that they feel the need to export it?