Posted on 09/13/2012 11:21:21 AM PDT by mojito
True to an extent.
Our nukes are tested. Virtually. Basically supercomputers are harnessed to simulate the aging of the warheads and then they are detonated. Virtually. This has been going on for a long time and is one reason that supercomputers (and the codes that run on them) have national security implications.
Now how accurate are these calculations/simulations? How sure are we that they represent physical reality? I don’t claim to know. I’m sure some very smart people have worked on this stuff but beyond that - i have no idea.
In an American election year, the Middle East is a side issue in a nation ever broker and, in large part, weary of global responsibilities it never sought. But, to modify Trotsky, you may not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you. Would Morsi have moved so far so fast against a military bankrolled by U.S. taxpayers if he had thought Washington would push back? Probably not. But he read the Obama administration and correctly concluded he could do what he wanted and pay no price — as did Erdogan, a nominal NATO ally, when he all but formally broke off relations with Israel. As do the mullahs, daily. All three look at Washington and see a late Ottoman sultan: soft, pampered, decadent, weak, lounging on his cushions, puffing his hookah, but unable to rouse himself to impose his will. After Qaddafi, Hillary Clinton offered the following clunker of a sound bite: "We came, we saw, he died." In reality, we're gone, they saw, and the post-American world is being born.
That’s a reasonable point, and can’t be disproved with the information available to us.
No need to nuke Cairo, just drop one conventional bunker buster on the face of the Aswan dam...
FLUSH all the way to the sea.
No Egypt.
Good idea.
Serious Steyn for deadly times
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