[TomasUSMC]

We firebombed Dresden and nuked Japan for "shock and awe." It worked in the latter; failed in the former

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Well.... Dresden and Tokyo both were firebombed and those bombings did not end the war. But, it might be that maybe the one bomb/one city/one mushroom visual, was more convincing.

All though to support your point, the first mushroom didn't do the job. Multiple vanishing cities, one after the other, in quick succession seems to be the winning ticket on this.

You know, it may sound hideous and brutal, but if ISLAM gets nukes, and Pakistan already has them..... well better them than us while we still have the upper hand. Sooner or later, every country will have nukes or something worse, when that day comes, can we aford to have a religion like Islam around?

[Aquinasfan]

Pakistan already has them..... well better them than us while we still have the upper hand.

Too late. Pakistan already has them. Pakistan will retaliate if we nuke Iran. They won't retaliate if we use conventional weapons to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons.