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| 2006-08-28 |
| Authored by David Foster An old copy of Forbes ASAP (2/22/99) has an article on supercomputing which includes this quote from a nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos: Weapons designers play the societal role of witches in fairy tales--we scare people into behaving. I've noticed that many liberals talk glibly and confidently about using the threat of "massive retaliation" to deter nuclear attacks by countries like Iran and North Korea--while at the same time angrily denouncing any conventional military operations by the US or Israel that result in any civilian casualties at all. On the one hand, they argue that it is morally unacceptable for Israel to destroy a terrorist rocket facility if there is a risk of civilian casualties. On the other hand, they support a strategy which implies the deliberate killing of millions of civilians. How can these opinions coexist? I think it's because, in their minds, nuclear weapons belong to the realm of witchcraft, not the realm of reality. RTWT, including the comments. |
| Posted by:Phil |
| #2 Yeah, like the US has been Not Using our conventional military since uprooting the Taliban in Afghanistan... |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2006-08-28 15:13 |
| #1 Yes, but the conventional action of Israel does more to effect the enemy than all the nukes on all the missiles the US has because the enemy knows the Israelis will use theirs and the Americans won't. |
| Posted by: Glinert Cromogum8898 2006-08-28 09:09 |