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2008-04-20 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2008-04-20 13:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I suggest recreating MAD. Advise the rogues that if a country uses a nuke against its enemy, the US will sterilize the aggressor with neutron bombs, then give the now depopulated country to their hated enemy and nuke victim as reparations.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-20 16:05|| 2008-04-20 16:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Deterrence is a valid delaying tactic between 2 similar, rational opponents. It's not a strategy, doesn't apply with >2 opponents & untraceable terrorist delivery. And a significant bunch of the Iranian leadership isn't rational. It allows a bunch of primitive screwheads to get the 1st shot in when we should just be giving them the boomstick.

Posted by Dave AARRGGHH!! 2008-04-20 19:23|| 2008-04-20 19:23|| Front Page Top

#3 The untraceability is a problem, as well as delays in tracing. An interval between attack and retaliations allows the UN/NGO/Multilateral/PeaceNow/CodePink crowd to dampen and deny the deterrence.

That, and I keep thinking "15 of 19" and what that has not led to.

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-04-20 21:57|| 2008-04-20 21:57|| Front Page Top

#4 One country at a time, Harcourt Jush7795. Once the Taliban were kicked off their little thrones in Afghanistan, and Al Qaeda chased out, we drove out Saddam Hussein and his fascist coterie. Iran is chasing after nuclear weapons, so they are a higher priority than our friends the House of Saud -- who are after all merely using their oil money to finance terrorist organizations and fascist Wahhabism in mosques around the world. Besides, we need to get Iraq's oil production to the point that it equals Iran's sales (which continue to fall as equipment fails due to lack of proper maintenance, if I understand correctly) plus a significant chunk of Saudi Arabia's. That way, when the House of Saud is removed from power, any temporary stoppage of production resulting from the removal will not send the world economy into a massive depression.

Think how much the Europeans, for instance, would complain about a major depression, given how much they're complaining about the fall-out of our sub-prime loan shake-out.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-20 22:21|| 2008-04-20 22:21|| Front Page Top

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