What I find a bit amusing about his post is that he himself probably considers apologizing weak and "womanly".
You greatly underestimate the intelligence of the Russians and the Chinese. Relax, brother Achilles, you're gonna be around to get that next iphone. All those Russians and Chinese will be right in line with you.
You have no idea whether Russia was bluffing or not. They did indeed roll their nukes in. NATO pulled their troops out. Whether Russia intended to use their nukes preemptively, or it was a bluff, it shows Russia isn't fucking around. So please spare us who will do what when we start throwing some nukes around. Nobody knows what will happen or how it will escalate.
C'mon. You're talking like detonating a few nukes in Russias backyard is safer than flying a twin engine beaver into Alaska.
Egypt seems to have forgotten what happened to them last time. Poke a wolverine with a sharp stick and, well... Israel isn't going to put up with rockets being fired from Gaza or Southern Lebanon. I don't think they want to reoccupy Gaza but they will pound the shit out of it if rockets keep coming in. Syria is busy with the rebels and Egypt hasn't got shit for a military. Russian and China could supply Egypt but we would respond by supplying Taiwan and by putting missile defense systems into Europe (Poland). Iran should be careful because the truth is that Israel doesn't have the tools (heavy bombers and deep penetrating bombs) to really engage them properly and somebody might actually get nuked. Nobody wants to see that including me.
The Al Queda of 2001 isn't the Al Queda of 2012. Al Queda ten years ago was about terrorism on US soil. Al Queda today is about getting the fucking Americans out of their Country (220+ military bases around the world) . Much of the third world doesn't like America. Our forebearers fucked around in these countries and played games with people lives, for decades. And now, the chickens have come home to roost in terms of anti-US sentiment. These Africans aren't the next Bin Laden. They just want the US to get the fuck off their land and stop buying/bribing and installing puppet dictators that ruin their country.
I just don't think the sky is falling, brother Achilles. When Israel strikes Iran in February, it won't be with nukes. They will strike/Russia will make a few threats/UN security council will call an emergency session/U.S. will make a few concessions/Iran will be pacified/Iran will no longer have any capability to produce nukes/Iran will get the sanctions lifted, knowing that Israel is the ones who mean business/John Boner and Obama will resume arguing about which of the two idiots have the best economic plan.