Responding to terrorism gives the terrorists control and encourages it.
I always think of prison systems in contexts like this, but terrorism is more obvious — the whole point of terrorism is to excite response. That’s why it’s called “terrorism”.
That’s ridiculous for any number of reasons.
If Iran detonates a nuke underground that’s not “hands off”, that’s the end of any negotiations with the regime.
And no one has been willing to do anything against North Korea since 1953, because of China. It’s got nothing to do with nukes.
As if we’ve been willing to seriously negotiate before. No; if they had nukes we would negotiate with them seriously, or we’d ignore them. Instead of just relying on terror and killing.
Fundamentally, America is a bully. We glory in terrorizing and attacking nations that can’t fight back, but can’t stand up against anyone willing and able to hurt us back.