Posted on 09/12/2005 3:51:50 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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Can you say KaabaaOOm.
Heh..I hear that and it certainly has an element of "feel good" to it but in all candor, in terms of a response to the WOT, I can't think of a scenario where we would use nukes.
Now, if we can pin it down to a particular state or country, yes, all options are open, including nukes.
Would anyone miss Syria if it went away? Show of hands?
I have been thinking about this a lot lately, especially on the anniversy of 9/11 and the awful aftermath of a city without a back-up plan for an inevitable event. Yes, I am talking about New Orleans.
Iran of all countries commented on how easily our country fell into chaos with one major physical event and how they could replicate such chaos if we ever took offensive action to stop their nuke program.
Al Queda attacks our financial institutions to bring down our entire economy. First 9/11 then they failed on a massive plot to blow up Citicorp and other major financial institutions. Since 2001, we have been told by all of the experts that a nuclear 9/11 is an inevitable event, not a 'what if'. That will surely be the end of the economy and America as we knew it.
These things being said, nuke deterrance means nothing to the terrorists. The ones at the top are so hidden who would we nuke? The ones we can see at the bottom want to die for Islam anyways. I think the best we can do is prepare a massive civilian defense system. If they nuke our city it costs us dearly but we can survive as a country to fight on another day.
That is the big problem, of course, right there.
Oh the Libs will drop dead over this one. The'll say we wind up nuking a country then finding out later there were no WMDs.
I like it myself..Keeps the Islamist on their toes...
MECCA=Glass
For the same reason they don't worry about American Musket fire. We have much bigger, nastier and more lethal stuff on the shelf. A dirty bomb is just radioactive material packed around a regular bomb.
A dirty bomb wouldn't likely kill that many people in the initial attack and most of those would be from the explosion it's self.
Over time there would be a rise in cancer rates but as either an offensive or defensive weapon a dirty bomb just isn't lethal enough to to interest us.
Do unto them before they get a chance to do unto us.
I meant as an anonymous, reverse terror weapon. I agree its not good for formal war.
Just nuke 'em all so we don't miss anything in the event of an attack.
Now if W makes that threat, it might make the islamists think twice.
I suspect that most of these nations believe that we would use nukes even though we might not. Thanks to the Afghan and Iraq wars, these countries are a bit more "afraid" of us now. This is a good thing. Hugs will not protect us -- force or the threat of force will.
And the Democrats help promote this idea when they go abroad and protest and complain about the U.S. -- "useful idiots."
But, I bet that all of that will change if one or many of our cities are nuked.
There would be a lot of very angry Americans. And civility be damned. It would be survival.
Terrorist might be nuts. But the people who train them and/or allow them in their countries are not.
...Chapel Hill
"But, I bet that all of that will change if one or many of our cities are nuked."
Well, then the policy would have failed.....that's the point. It's going to take a nuke strike to elicit a nuke strike.
We need other military and covert options. disrupt countries that threaten us utterly.......cause civil unrest, even civil war....assassinate their leaders. THAT's how you do it, not by saying we'll nuke you if you don't do what we say.
Um, Iran? Buh-bye.
No WMD were found in New Orleans.
We should bring the troops home now!
/sarcasm
Bring it on to your own town buddy.
I mean really. Bring it on? WTH????
Austin? come on, man....
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