We can sustain more nuclear damage than they can. Let's say they have 3 totally effective small nukes and they take out part of NYC, part of LA, and part of Chicago.
We on the other hand then take out all of Tehran, all of Damascus, all of North Yemen, all of the Bekaa Valley, and all of the Afghan / Pakistan border area. Iran won't exist without Tehran, Syria without Damascus, Hamas without the valley, and the taliban without the border.
Problem solved, and done will full and complete international and moral justification.
You said -- "We on the other hand then take out all of Tehran, all of Damascus, all of North Yemen, all of the Bekaa Valley, and all of the Afghan / Pakistan border area. Iran won't exist without Tehran, Syria without Damascus, Hamas without the valley, and the taliban without the border."
We *can* (i.e., "have the ability") -- but -- we never will do that. There would be too many people in these United States that would condemn that -- including me. That sort of indiscriminate thing will never happen.
Also -- "Problem solved, and done will full and complete international and moral justification."
You've got to be kidding. If you think we'll get "international justification" for that -- you're way out on a limb there. And there would never be any moral justification for the killing of millions of innocents. That's not why the U.S. developed "smart bombs" -- so we could kill innocents. We've been working in the *other direction* to try and make things more precise and to avoid collateral damage. And you think we're going to abandon all that in one big swoop? Never happen...
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Star Traveler
"We can sustain more nuclear damage than they can. Let's say they have 3 totally effective small nukes and they take out part of NYC, part of LA, and part of Chicago.
We on the other hand then take out all of Tehran, all of Damascus, all of North Yemen, all of the Bekaa Valley, and all of the Afghan / Pakistan border area. Iran won't exist without Tehran, Syria without Damascus, Hamas without the valley, and the taliban without the border.
Problem solved, and done will full and complete international and moral justification."
The point is, this is exactly what the jihadists want. It suicide and stupid but that is how they are. Cunning planners of wonton destruction but no true understanding of how it impacts them in the future.
After such an attack, our country and the globe will be in depression as we rebuild, the Iranian leadership will be underground laughing and then the real puppeteers China and Russia are now the last remaining superpowers on earth. Why do you think Russia is directly arming them with nuclear technology and giving us the finger?
How about China? China needs the energy resources now and is competing on almost every oil/nat gas contract out on the market. Remember the Taliban delegates meeting with the PRC during the invasion of Ahfghanistan? How about the book Assymetrical Warfare created by the PRC specifically talking about using commercial airliners as weapons to bring down a democratic economy? This is about global hedgmony and a ton of smaller terrorists states being puppeted by proxy by the bigger states.