To: MikeinIraq
"Don't you think they would have tried something like that OVER THERE first? I mean we only have 2 sizable military presences over there..... "
That depends on motive and opportunity. Detonating a nuclear device against US troops kills a few tens of thousands of US troops. From a military standpoint, that's not particularly significant, and would bring easy retribution. It would cause worldwide shock and outrage, but nothing at home on the scale of what a nuclear blast in Chicago or New York would bring.
You detonate a couple of nuclear devices against US military, you win a battle and lose a war against an enemy that knows the nuclear gloves are off. You detonate a couple nuclear devices in major US cities and you cripple the nation, collapse the economy, murder millions of Americans, and bring about the biggest strike against any westernized civilization in the history of the world.
98 posted on
02/22/2006 8:38:46 PM PST by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: NJ_gent
Hi NJ_gent: Yet sadly there would still be Americans wringing their hands over "what we did" to make those poor Muslims so upset if they ever utilized WMD.
I agree with you that terrorists will go for the whole civilian enchilada if they can get their mittens on nuclear weapons. They're not particularly interested in hardened military targets if they have an option to go after regular people on their way to work.
~ Blue Jays ~
99 posted on
02/22/2006 9:42:06 PM PST by
Blue Jays
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