Bill Hicks was a stand-up performer and commentator who challenged this type of foreign policy by quoting the movie "Shane".
Jack Palance forces a small farmer to pick up a gun. "Pickitup, pickitup!" The man won't. "Pickitup!" He still won't, he's scared... and he's only in town to buy candy for the kids and a roll of gingham for his wife. Palance commands him: he picks it up. Kapow! Palance blasts him away. "You saw him," says Palance. "He had a gun."
Continuing in jest he would follow with somthing like...
Of course... All the US had to do was look at the receipt, Hicks said. As soon as the check cleared, they'd be goin' in to fight that little country in the name of God, democracy and whoever they currently liked.
His comedy was a little sensationalistic, but the overall message points to some very real problems with this type of foreign policy.
We gave Iran the capability they needed to create WMD's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2275249.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...html?gusrc=rss