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Re: Just Teasing, I Have No Intention of Debating Any of This...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:28:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:>
> Modified hypothetical:
>
> Let a = whacky terrorist group run by a psychopath.
> Let b = nuke-bearing dictatorship run by a guy who likes
> living the good life and pretty evil, but not
> plausibly insane.
> Let c = big country that they both hate.
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> So, a and b would both like to see c crumble...so far we're agreeing. But, if
> b gives a nuke to a that is then used on c, while c is stinging at the insult,
> c will utterly eradicate from this Earth all of b. And everyone knows this.
> So, b, much as he might like to see c hurt, will not give the nuke to a.
>
> The truth is, that if Saddam provided Bin Laden with a nuke that was then
> detonated in Manhattan, we cleanse the desert with nuclear hellfire and leave
> it a glowing ecological disaster for 20,000 years. It would be an attack of
> unprecidented magnitude. And we would go down in history as monsters, but we
> would do it anyway because the capacity for vengence that is within our psyche
> would demand it. Hussein is no fool.
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> Chris
Not necessarily nukes. they know c would annihilate them for that. however
a terrorist group *could* come up with chem or bio weapons themselves, and
therefore using them would hurt c and keep b relativily safe and a only
slightly damaged. Also, if c used chem, bio, or nukes to retaliate c would
be portrayed as horrible monsters, no matter how many of c's civillians died
horrible deaths.
Lastly, there not being a "proven" link means nothing. if our military
intelligence was that good OBL would be long dead and the bay of pigs
invasion would have worked out nicely.
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