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To: Slings and Arrows

If Israel is forced by war to nuke the Aswan dam it will be like flushing a toilet


10 posted on 08/17/2013 8:43:08 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
If Israel is forced by war to nuke the Aswan dam it will be like flushing a toilet

A nuke will destroy the dam, but shouldn't kill all that many people, given that it's hundreds of miles away from Egypt's major population centers. The dam busters killed 1600 people while breaching the Ruhr River valley dams. The destruction of Aswan dam with JDAM's would mainly turn out the lights in Egypt, which wouldn't be such a bad thing in a wartime situation. Ultimately, any war started by Egypt should result in Israel's permanent annexation of the Sinai.

20 posted on 08/17/2013 9:01:27 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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24 posted on 08/17/2013 9:30:11 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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“If Israel is forced by war to nuke the Aswan dam it will be like flushing a toilet”

Why would Israel do this? If “forced” to use nukes by war, isn’t it more likely that they would nuke Egyptian (American-made) tank formations or something that could impact a battle I presume Israel would be losing. Nuking Aswan would have no effect on a battle being fought in the Sinai or southern Israel.


49 posted on 08/18/2013 3:07:25 PM PDT by Owl558 (Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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