If potential adversaries believed that we had the resolve (balls, whatever) to use nuclear weapons, we wouldn’t have to use them. The most persuasive argument for nuking Japan was to show them that we not only had nuclear weapons, but the will to use them. Until August 6, 1945 Japan was a nation in thrall to a suicide cult. They got over it.
Same deal with Islamist.
Agree totally with you. These rag head islamists will stop at nothing to destroy this country and Israel. The joke is on us because we have been destroyed from within.
Totally true. Credibility is a must! As the saying goes, no better friend no worse enemy. Knowing that hombre wears a white hat and is a good chap, but muck about and he’ll be your death. Many cultures, including the Islamic death cult, the Chinese growing juggernaut, or the Russian re-awakening vampire ....alll GET strength. What they do not understand is weakness. What they do not see is the faint. What they do not comprehend is surrender. The great threat in the next 2 decades will be China. The US is currently far ahead, but that lead is getting degraded. They’ll never surpass the technological edge of the US, but they do not need to - they only need to get close enough, and that will suffice. The US is getting less and less credible. In my book, that’s a cogent risk.
I lobbied for just that on 9-12. We should have destroyed Mecca or Medina to the last man and building. To defeat the Muslims, you must defeat their belief in their god. Destroy every symbol of that religion, and you destroy the entirety of their faith and movement. That would be a very good thing on this planet.