Iran is the biggest state sponsor of terrorist groups in the world, and will soon have nuclear weapons. What will civilization be like when Iran's proxy terrorists use these nukes one after another?
How does "mutually assured destruction" work against people who believe that dying while trying to mass murder as many innocents as possible is the surest way to heaven?
How does "mutually assured destruction" work against people who believe that dying while trying to mass murder as many innocents as possible is the surest way to heaven?
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It doesn't. You HAVE TO GET THEM before they get you. End of discussion....
== How does "mutually assured destruction" work against people who believe that dying while trying to mass murder as many innocents as possible is the surest way to heaven? ==
Don't make it "mutual".
How about "You blow up one US city, and we will destroy every one of your cities". Decimation!
Jihadist getting nuclear weapons and using them isn't anywhere near MAD. The 1st time they use 1 or more means the war on terror will come to a very abrupt end and they will be on the losing end.
Their leadership generally does not subscribe to that philosophy.
One thing I've also noticed is that Islamokazis generally go for an instantaneous and thus relatively painless death: bombs and the occasional plane crash.
Arab Muslims may not fear death, but they do try to avoid pain and humiliation. This may suggest an approach.
As far as Islamists getting nukes, Wretchard over at Belmont Club blob had a convincing argument about how the US response would have no choice in how to respond
The so-called strengths of Islamic terrorism: fanatical intent; lack of a centralized leadership; absence of a final authority and cellular structure guarantee uncontrollable escalation once the nuclear threshold is crossed. Therefore the 'rational' American response to the initiation of terrorist WMD attack would be all out retaliation from the outset.I would encourage people to look at the article. Essentially, once Islamists have WMD capability, and the ability to continue WMD attacks indefinitely, the US has two choices: surrender, or the complete and total extermination of Islam
Negotiation implies rationality. Islamo-fascists are totally insane and must be obliterated.
Fanciful concepts that apply to "civilized factions" have no relevance. Other notions like "strategic symmetry" that describe insane annhilation are useless.
Criminality on the scale of Islamo-terrorism deserves commensurate total and final elimination with not one iota of negotiation. The fact of this response can be the only deterrent if anything can be.
'If I can't have it, nobody can.'
Spoken like a true spoiled brat. This certainly proves that there is still a mind-set in this world shared by millions that has not risen even to the threshhold of conscious awareness, let alone, human.
Isn't it time to subdue the beast? Separate the wheat from the chaff? Take the loaded pistol from the monkey's hand?