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To: Lorianne

Look up the difference between “tactical nuclear warfare” and “strategic nuclear warfare”...You may learn something...


44 posted on 05/29/2015 12:35:14 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: Boonie

I will do.


45 posted on 05/29/2015 1:12:28 PM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Boonie

Ok I looked it up and learned a lot. Thanks

1. When people say (as I’ve heard hear and elsewhere dozens of times) “turn the whole region into molten glass” I don’t think they mean tactical weapons as that wouldn’t do the trick.

2. It’s also not very strategic. This is from what I read. “Use of tactical nuclear weapons against similarly-armed opponents carries a significant danger of quickly escalating the conflict beyond anticipated boundaries, from the tactical to the strategic The existence and deployment of small, low-yield tactical nuclear warheads could be a dangerous encouragement to forward-basing and pre-emptive nuclear warfare ... “ So my point about escalation is validated see 3 below

3. Especially if you add in the unknowns like Russia and or China retaliating to gain an advantage using humanitarian reasons as cover.

4. I quite understand the frustration that leads to the “nuke them to the stone age” sentiment ... I get very frustrated too. After that quick surge of retaliatory fantasy one has to look at the cold hard realities. It’s just not practical. Muslims are over 1/4 of the world’s population and are spread over a vast swath of the earth. It would take world war (and nearly everyone on the planet else on our side) to take them all on.


46 posted on 05/29/2015 7:25:48 PM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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