Why?? why do this???
I don’t want to see a nuclear exchange, of course. But, who knows what the world situation will be in the future. It’s dangerous enough as is.
But, I would like the nuclear option on the table. I would like ISIS to worry that we might nuke them.
Why any need to tip our hand on this sort of thing???
because (a) his encyclopedia entry is still only three sentences long, (b) he promised to be a “transformative president”, and (c) at this rate, he’ll never get his head on mt. rushmore.
who knows what the world situation will be in the future
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Obama. He thinks he knows everything. He doesn’t want to listen to the people’s representatives in the senate or anyone else. He is dangerous and arrogant megalomaniac.
I have a feeling you know the answer to that question.
“Why?? why do this???”
Because he’s given his Iranian friends nukes, but now he wants to make sure they can successfully use them against Israel before we can retaliate.
A. Scenario 1. I am a bad guy building nuclear weapons in a hardened site 2000 feet below the Elbrus Mountains North of Tehran. As soon as I have weapon I will use it on Israel, NATO, or the United States. My hardened site can not be taken out with conventional weapons. I will use my nukes when they are a deliverable weapon.
B. Scenario 2. Obama does nothing and we are nuked.
C. Scenario 3. Our president is a patriot and tells the bad guys to give them up or we will turn that mountain into a molten radioactive hell and unfortunately most of Tehran at the same time.
Giving up any option relative to first use of nuclear weapons is insane and one must observe the Mullahs are insane. They will use them.
Question: Option B or option C? I prefer C.
We could have taken Japan with conventional forces. We would have had close to a million casualties and 1 to 2 hundred thousand deaths. Japan would have had death and casualties many times in excess of what happened from atomic weapons. They would have lost million mostly to disease and starvation. We had total supremacy of the air and would have continued to fire bomb their cities and any and all infrastructure that supported their war machine and this includes the means of food production, power, and any industry. We dropped the bomb and THEY SURRENDERED and surrendered unconditionally.
It being off the table encourages all manner of bad behavior and line-skipping. It’s always a bad idea to tie our hands.