Bobby Hogg said:It appears I am certainly missing something.
chcr said:Sorry, truth is a philisophical construct. Facts matter though.
These exist, but would they be considered sufficient warning in retalliation for a dirty bomb in NYC for example? I somehow don't think so.Gato_Solo said:You seem to have this idea in your head that a nuke is only for wiping out large tracts of cities. This is a common mistake. There are nuclear weapons that wouldn't damage more than one city block...including fallout.
Winky said:spoken like a true... LIBERAL!
just the fax ma'am just the fax
MrBishop said:These exist, but would they be considered sufficient warning in retalliation for a dirty bomb in NYC for example? I somehow don't think so.
How do you know Aunt Betty?Gonz said:I'm reasonably certian that if th eal qaeda gang woke up on Tuesday morning & Medina was suddelny & strangley void of life, yea, it woul dsend a message. Especially when all the New Jersey trailer trash we convoying their way there with pickup trucks full of mismatched furniture.
[note]This is only a humorous attempt at making a point & not a slam against your aunt Betty who has mismatched furniture & lives in Wind WIllows Retirement Manufactured Housing Community.
If she likes you, she'll take her teeth out.Gonz said:She was wandering Main St wearing her stretchy pink fuck me pants & yelling I'll bllow you for a dollar. ANd, well, I was drunk.
If merely having enough nukes to effectivly wipe out all life on earth dozens of times over didn't put the fear of God into al quaida enough to stop 9/11...then nuking Medina wouldn't either. *Although you'd surely piss off a lot of Saudis.Gonz said:I'm reasonably certian that if th eal qaeda gang woke up on Tuesday morning & Medina was suddelny & strangley void of life, yea, it woul dsend a message. Especially when all the New Jersey trailer trash we convoying their way there with pickup trucks full of mismatched furniture.
Terrorists don't claim allegiance with any particular nation.
MrBishop said:If merely having enough nukes to effectivly wipe out all life on earth dozens of times over didn't put the fear of God into al quaida enough to stop 9/11...then nuking Medina wouldn't either. *Although you'd surely piss off a lot of Saudis.
MrBishop said:Terrorists don't claim allegiance with any particular nation. They're multinational... kinda like cockroaches. They don't get scared off by people with bigger feet.
The bigger question there would be how'd she survive that shit.Winky said:what will billary do when three square miles of Manhattan
is a smokin' hole in the ground?
Bobby Hogg said:The scorched earth policy hasn't worked for Israel, so I don't see why it would work in this instance.
BH said:But I don't see how this works. The terrorists who carry out these attacks are often dead. What good is trying to intimidate them then?
BH said:I don't see why I should be blown up in my street for something I have no control over: terrorists committing atrocities, saying they do it in my name. Just as your average American citizen has no control over what his government does (in a real sense), blowing him up is fruitless.
BH said:All I see when you try to employ a policy of violent reprisal is an escalating cycle of violence with no end in sight.
BH said:This is not to say that I don't think terrorists or their leaders should be dealt with, if the opportunity arises. They must be.
BH said:They're also corrupt, brutal and undemocratic.
psst....Winky said:Hogg and Bish's comments are going to look bad the day I dredge
this thread up before the radioactivity has had a chance to disperse
half a million dead Americans will not be avenged by a patty-cake response
me said:Now...if a dirty bomb went off in a major metropolitan in North America (or even in Europe) and it was traced back to a particular country or political group... despite anything that any OTCer might say...I can very well see that country being wiped from the map.