"Don't go wobbly. It's bad enough that India and Pakistan have nukes. . ."
. . . says Margaret Thatcher in todays' Opinion Journal.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has fundamentally changed the world in which we and our children will live. India's and Pakistan's nuclear arsenals have given them the power to inflict huge destruction. But neither is a rogue state. . . .

Proliferation of WMD offers far more menacing risks when those weapons are in the hands of the West's sworn enemies. We have to assume that if those who hate us are confident that they can threaten us or our allies by this means they will do so. The threat alone could transform the West's ability to intervene in order to protect its interests or to undertake humanitarian missions. In some cases we must expect the rogue states to try to go beyond mere threat.

It is still true that any such action would be irrational. There can be no doubt that response to the use of WMD against us would be massive--probably nuclear. Yet even this awesome prospect might not deter a fanatic who cared nothing for his own country or safety. We already see such a mentality at work in the suicide bombers. At the rate at which nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry and missile technology have been proliferating we must expect that at some point these weapons will be used.

This is quite simply the greatest challenge of our times. We must rise to it.

As usual for the Iron Lady, this is very well said. Saddam has to go. But I don't see the Bush administration actually preparing Americans for it, or, especially, laying out the casus belli. It's there, but we aren't being told.