The fragile consideration of anything principled on the balance of MAD - Mutual Annihilation Deterrent - is that there are an increasing number of individuals and organizations (if not entire nations) which have made an agenda, an objective, of 'fulfilling the prophecies' of world's turmoil, chaos and even eventual ending. Individual suicide bombers (of every stripe and plumage, from all over the world), who wish to destroy themselves and take many people with them.

On a larger scale it is now said to be culminating in leading facets of Iranian government, regarding nuclear weapons and delivery systems for example. Rush Limbaugh's WABC N.Y. City talk show has repeatedly featured callers-in who are talking about a preemptive strike on Iran (for example), before it fulfills it's charter (published agenda) to destroy Israel and commence WW III (per se).

The problem in some cases (most broadly exampled with rogue governments ) is that sometimes the objective of the amok individual or organization is in fact to self destruct while destroying others (often and especially, more recently, including their own families or people - this mentality of a predestined end of the world is apparently escalating - in Iraq).

Controlling factors of the exemplary Iranian government are said to be highly resilient to negotiation because it is not their wish to respond to diplomacy or peace talks. Is a 'preemptive strike' the only solution in such cases? How are such self destructive mentalities negotiated with (in an individual or a large organization)? In many cases there is no time or allowance for 're-education'. There is a very realistic pallor of apprehension throughout Western Civilization that 'the politics of 911' have only begun. Islam is not to blame, but (the Rush Limbaugh employed term of) 'Islamic Fascism' is the apparently intractable problem here.