[RightWhale]

Not easy to get excited about some 10 kt devices when the country has been under threat of thousands of 20 mt devices for half a century.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“Not easy to get excited about...”

I hope you’re kidding. Nuclear war is far more likely NOW than it ever was with the Soviets. The Soviets were at least rational men who loved their families and were deterred by the guarantee of massive retaliation. It’s not so with our current enemy!

[Rick.Donaldson]

Not easy to get excited about some 10 kt devices when the country has been under threat of thousands of 20 mt devices for half a century.

To some extent you're correct. Most people, especially Liberals view this situation in precisely this way. However, having lived through and been a part of fighting the Cold War - there is a distinct difference that many people can't seem to recognize.

That being the fact that the Russians weren't planning on being vaporized any more than we were. We had a mutual threat against each other that for the most part prevented the big nuclear exchange everyone expected.

The Russians are SANE people, as are Americans.

Islamic jihadists are NOT sane. They don't CARE about their people, their cities, they only care how they get "to Heaven". Therefore they will stop at nothing to accomplish this crime against humanity.

While a 10kt device is certainly not as destructive as a 20 mt device, there will be many, many dead, wounded and many more in the days to follow such an attack.

Most Americans will come together to help those killed. Some might do as others have suggested and "attack mosques" or whatever, but I don't think that ANY American really believes that you can blame every individual of a certain race, or religion for the acts of some of the more crazy people in their societies.

American WILL retaliate and it won't be anything like Afghanistan either. Nothing like it.