Trump: Hey, nuking ISIS is maybe a good idea

Hotair ^ | 04/28/2016 | Taylor Millard

[Stayfree]

He is only saying that to garner the votes of those of us who would not hesitate to make Iran a glass parking lot...trust me, he knows that is not a viable military strategy because of the collateral and lasting damage that nuking ISIS would result...but it is also an absolute message to ISIS that you are toast when I become President. Clever message....

[RC one]

I think he’s serious when he sees nothing is off the table and that is the way it should be. ISIS or any other enemy would have to justify their use of course but it’s all on the table. as it should be.

[SaxxonWoods]

So much for Trump being a Democrat.

Democrats wouldn’t use nukes if we were attacked with them.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I’d be ready for him to use them on day one.

Any future terrorist attack should be met with the terrorist’s home town being vaporized.

[Charles Martel]

Anyone who even thinks about using first strike weapons is Ineligible to hold the Office of the President of the United States!

Nobody said ICBMs. USAF has a Global Strike Command which handles the nukes which are delivered by aircraft and/or cruise missile. Tactical or Theater weapons with smaller explosive yield, not the high-level Strategic weapons.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Besides, it’s a little late for us to do a “first strike”.

[OneHun]

"The only way to attack Trump is to misrepresent his words."

Correct!  In IT sometimes you use similar words: "I have to nuke the computer".  No, you are not dropping an atomic bomb on the computer.  Instead, everything is so badly messed up that you have to format the Hard Drive and do a clean install of everything, starting with the Operating System. 

 

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

HotAir is a complete and utter joke.

[Ozark Tom]

Let’s see what the tonnage put into orbit looks like if reusable rockets pan out. Rail-guns are nice; but, Thor would really make a statement. “Rods from God” are not prohibited by any current treaty.

[TMSuchman]

You forgot the “Boomer” fleet, the sub launched missiles, & as far as I know they are always up and ready to fly at a moments notice.

[TMSuchman]

But unless we put them up there already, we NO longer have the heavy lift ability right now. It is on the books to be put on line, for the Mars missions, but not yet.

[TomasUSMC]

Reagan said he was going to bomb the Iranians and nuke the Russians, he didn’t, but you better believe they believed.

[TMSuchman]

There is another way. It has been rumored that we have an EMP Electricalo Magnetic Pulse Device] It fries electrical devices
but not people or buildings. And since most of the people over there do not have a lot of electrical devices and therefore would not suffer too much more. Unlike us that are so tech heavy, if such a device were to be deployed against us, 90% of our population would be dead within 1 year. [according to feama]

[TomasUSMC]

A nuke strike ain’t gonna end life on this planet in 6 minutes unless your the target, then it will be even quicker.

Concern yourself with nukes smuggled into our Country...a very possible situation....and how do you stop that. YOU NUKE IRAN FIRST, ASAP.

Don’t wait for the next Pearl Harbor.

[Charles Martel]

The missile boats are more of a second-strike backup to the land-based missiles, and any detected launch at sea (without advance warning to the Russians, Chinese, etc.) would invite disastrous counter-moves, just the same as if we launched from the northern plains.

The smaller tactical nukes, OTOH, can be tough to distinguish from some of the newer conventional bombs - until the radiation sensors start screaming.

[353FMG]

If HIllart became POTUS, our adversaries will read her like an open e-book.

[Nifster]

Oh yeah. Trump said he right. Hillary went to bed and slept through the three a.m. call

[Nifster]

Yup. Cowardice is her name

[mkjessup]

Anyone who even thinks about using first strike weapons is Ineligible to hold the Office of the President of the United States!

Oh bullshit, WTF is wrong with you? Using your logic, Truman should have been impeached for using the atomic bombs on Japan, because they sure the Hell were 'first strike weapons'. Give your head a shake and calm down.

Such a strike would end ALL life on this planet in 6 min. by every nation on the planet to unleash theirs against their favorite enemy/ies list.

Oh bullshit again. Try to pull yourself out of DQM (Drama Queen Mode) and realize that life would in fact continue even after a massive nuclear exchange between either the United States and Russia, or China, or both. Using proven data from across the scientific spectrum, it was determined decades ago by think tanks that IF during the 1970's, we had ended up in a nuclear war with the Soviets, that after winning that war, within 10 years we would have recovered to the point where we were enjoying a circa-1965 standard of living. I remember 1965 and it was pretty damn good.

Then when in the distant future, alien life does come to this planet, they will laugh at our bones, for our stupidity! Just because of the stance of 1 person & he is a narcissistic, sociopath.

"narcissistic sociopath"?

Don't worry Sparky, Ted Cruz isn't going to get anywhere near the nuclear button.

[trebb]

The only way to attack Trump is to misrepresent his words.

Yep - takes away from the "credentials" of the supposedly principled conservative Christians who keep going about this business in an effort to stop him.....they must have covered the mirrors in their homes some time ago....