BlackAsCoal
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- Oct 13, 2008
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BlackAsCoal...we are discussing war in general....not just the US.
So the question is not who is allowed to have or not to have...the question is how is one to react if they feel that a WMD is going to be used against its people?
Prior to WMD's, the worst case scenario for any nation was last minute noticing of military movement of an adversary. You saw them approaching a border and you secured the border and war was not declared until the enemy attempted to cross the border.
Yes, a simple description, but certainly gets the point across.
Now? You may lose 1 million citizens in a blink of an eye. A ICBM is shot up and you have 2 hour to warn your citizens.
So I see it as war as a necessary evil....fopr if we refrain from war, we may be attacked and beaten.
Hey, we could have ended the Vietnam war with the drop of a nuke. Same in Iraq.
Thankfully, we have learned from the horrors of our use of the bomb and I do not think we will ever use them again.
Can we say the same for Iran? The same for N. Korea? Would we have been able to say the same for Hussein?
Let me ask you this.....if our intel showed that North Korea had installed an ICBM platform on Cuba with a nuke warheads...would you be adverse to military action if Cuba ignored diplomatic attmepts to difuse the situation?
Would you wait unti AFTER they shot it off?
You do realize that if we are reactive, we have already lost hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
Thoughts?
There are limits to military power. Shouldn't we have already learned that lesson?
Our military is running around the world getting their asses kicked .. so we should use nukes .. but deny others from getting them?
How do you justify that?
You cannot preemptively mass-muder people because of what you thought they might do.
That's straight evil.
Isn't that the lesson of Iraq?
We haven't learned anything from our horrors and we're considering using nukes again .. this time calling them "tatical"
Are you aware that WE overthrew the democratically-elected government in Iran for oil, for business?
Who told us we were the good guys?
That comes from Hollywood, not history