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03-29-2010, 09:37 AM
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Now that's realpolitik!
Could we save a Pizza Hut or two as well?
Pete
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03-30-2010, 11:49 AM
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So long as they don't blow up the likker store.
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03-30-2010, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Charles
So long as they don't blow up the likker store.
Chas
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that would be serious
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03-31-2010, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Zeke
I'm not a big MAD guy, more of a tactical nuke aficionado.
I mean, if we destroy your nation to the point of there being nothing left for us to invade and pillage, what's the point?
We just need to destroy your strategic weapons areas and manufacturing centers, leaving the brothels and McDonald's intact...
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I like your posts.
Dave
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07-18-2010, 07:56 PM
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One reason maybe is that the US is bankrupt and can just no longer afford to spend money on weapons systems that don't work.
And who was it supposed to stop? Iran is at least a decade away from a warhead, if they get sine outside help. Pakistan and India are too worried about blowing each other up to worry about nuking any other part of the world. Unless the "war on terror" continues to destabilize Pakistan and puts it into the hands of a radical Muslim leadership. North Korea needs their nukes as a shield against invasion by the US and S Korea.
Who else has nukes> Russia, of course, Israel has likely more than France and Britain, all of who are, ostensibly allies. Iraq was never close to having one, so that takes the middle east out of the equation. So who exactly was this built to deter?
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07-18-2010, 08:04 PM
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Area Man
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So who exactly was this built to deter?
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The scary monsters that live within our paranoid delusions.
Dave
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07-18-2010, 10:43 PM
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The scary monsters that live within our paranoid delusions.
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Which we actively recreate, every generation.
I'm sort of wondering who the NEXT bogeyman will be...
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07-18-2010, 11:22 PM
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Which we actively recreate, every generation.
I'm sort of wondering who the NEXT bogeyman will be...
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We are actually past the bogeyman. We are now attacking emotions. The war on terror indeed.
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07-19-2010, 07:36 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeke
I'm not a big MAD guy, more of a tactical nuke aficionado.
I mean, if we destroy your nation to the point of there being nothing left for us to invade and pillage, what's the point?
We just need to destroy your strategic weapons areas and manufacturing centers, leaving the brothels and McDonald's intact...
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It is called the Cobalt Bomb.
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07-19-2010, 08:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeke
I'm not a big MAD guy, more of a tactical nuke aficionado.
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I think the use of tactical nukes (which have never been used, BTW), would simply be a first step to MAD. That's precisely the reason they've never been used in the first place.
As perverse as MAD is, it seems to have worked.
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