MAD as hell

That acronym used to mean Mutually Assured Destruction, and the threat of that is what kept the US and the USSR from using nuclear weapons on each other.
Given the Rapture madness on one side and the Seventy-Two Virgins foolishness on the other, that notion won't work between the US and the Islamofascists; Muslim-Assured Destruction is more like it.
As the former Malaysian Prime Minister said recently: "Muslim nations in the Middle East should arm themselves with nuclear weapons to deter Western enemies from attacking them."
In a perverse sort of way, he's right. If they don't, we might.
And that's why we need to do whatever is necessary (as opposed to what might be Right by some people's standards) to keep them from getting nukes.

Or anything more technologically advanced than a rock...