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To: ffusco
You're just reiterating our old policy. Yes it was a very moral appraoch, Very Carteresque,

This makes no sense at all. Carter had nothing to do with formulating a "no first strike" policy,and in fact,NO SUCH FORMAL POLICY EXISTED. Yes,the US refused to commit herself to a "no first use" policy all during the Cold War.

yet it didn't protect us from attack. Why? Because the terrorists knew our policy of no first strike.

We didn't have any such policy. It was the Soviet Union and others who signed a formal declaration of "no first strikes",and the US did NOT sign this or agree to it.

As for the terrorists,even if we had of had a "no first strike" policy it wouldn't have affected them because they don't represent a country that can be nuked. They represent political and religious ideas,not a country. You can't nuke what isn't there.

I personally dont think it was wrong to use the A-bomb in Japan.

Me,either. So what? What does that have to do with what will be happening in Japan? We were not only at war with Japan,but they attacked us first,AND they had a base of operations (home country)that we could nuke. Iraq did NOT attack us,that was Saudi Arabia behind that. We are not going to go to war against Saudi Arabia regardless of what they do because too many elite political and corporate families are in business with them.

68 posted on 01/31/2003 6:34:11 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: sneakypete
"Iraq did NOT attack us,that was Saudi Arabia behind that."

Do you have proof of this - that the government of Saudi Arabia organized, planned, funded, manned, approved, and executed the attack on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon.

Do you have proof of this?

71 posted on 01/31/2003 6:57:26 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: sneakypete
I used Carteresque to imply a moral position which is ineffectual. Our enemies absolutely know our nation does not have the will to use our vast arsenal or this would not be news. I appreciate your revulsion to nuclear war but that won't protect us in the long run.
72 posted on 01/31/2003 6:58:36 AM PST by ffusco (sempre ragione)
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To: sneakypete
Do you believe terrorist cells in the US, Europe and the Mid East are just random acts by sick individuals or the result of a deliberate foriegn policy of nations waging passive/aggressive war on us? I believe the latter.
74 posted on 01/31/2003 7:02:01 AM PST by ffusco (sempre ragione)
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