I believe the U.S. and the West deep down have the will to do what is necessary. The question is, what will it take? They need to do a poll on that.
a) 30,000 lives lost, 30,000,000 jobs, and a DOW of 500 or so?
...straight through to...
d) 3,000,000 lives in a nuke blast making a major U.S. city uninhabitable for the next 100,000 years, grounding every airline, closing every bank, and sending the world into the second dark age (cause by the same people who brought us the FIRST dark age)
What will it take, I wonder?
Thank GOD no one who ever CONSIDERED a question like this had the ear of Harry Truman in 1945.