And kill how many innocent people? ALL the residents of those citites are 'terrorists'?
I don't really care what China thinks. Waitaminute, actually, I do. I don't want them to get any big ideas about bio warfare, either.
I tend to think the Chinese, Russians and the rest of the neighborhood over there might get a bit upset if we used nukes on their immediate neighbor. I don't think the Chinese would be particularly impressed with us. I don't fear them, but I do have a healthy respect for them.
This is not about who loves us. It is about survival. Bugs are way worse than nukes any day.
I'm not as convinced as you are that bugs are way worse than nukes. That is contrary to what I learned in NBC school when on active duty. Our survival, as a nation and as individuals, would be threatened far more by us launching a nuke strike than by any bug attack by terrorists.
It appears that critical thinking is not your strong point. You seem to be really interested in revenge. That's understandable. That you aren't in the decision making chain is a comfort to me. Have a nice life.
Nope. But they live in places that harbor terrorists. They should have thought of that before. Sucks to be them, I guess.
I tend to think the Chinese, Russians and the rest of the neighborhood over there might get a bit upset if we used nukes on their immediate neighbor. I don't think the Chinese would be particularly impressed with us. I don't fear them, but I do have a healthy respect for them.
We did not pick this war, it picked us. Therefore, we did not pick the geography. The place where bin Laden chose to hole up happens to be next to Russia and China. That should not afford any special protection. Russia and China need to understand that the US will act in its own defense and interests. They can carp all they want, but if you think either country would nuke us because we nuked one of their neighbors (a neighbor which is dangerous to BOTH of those countries, as the Taliban supports Islamic terrorists in Russia and China), then it is you who is lacking in the critical thinking skills. (BTW, nice move, going to ad hominem. Shows even stronger critical thinking and debate skills!)
I'm not as convinced as you are that bugs are way worse than nukes. That is contrary to what I learned in NBC school when on active duty. Our survival, as a nation and as individuals, would be threatened far more by us launching a nuke strike than by any bug attack by terrorists.
Lessee, what did you learn in NBC school? How to file an NBC1 report? An NBC2 report? An NBC3, maybe? How to plot downwind hazard areas? How to change out the filters in an M17? How to use DS2 vehicle decon sprayers? The levels of decon support available from divisional and corps assets? Chemical weapon types and their effects? How to read a dosimeter? How to prep an M8 chemical alarm?
Yeah, I spent a week in NBC school, too. I also spent a year in EOD school.
But you don't have to go to school to learn to compare and contrast the threat from bugs and nukes. First of all, dozens, perhaps hundreds, of nuclear weapons have been detonated on this planet, and except for those folks who we dropped nukes on in Japan, the death toll is pretty low. If you look at the incidences of plague or TB or smallpox or malaria or even the flu, you can find staggeringly high death tolls (10s and 100s of millions) from stuff that occurs in nature. Imagine what somewhat targeting people with malicious intent could do, and add in genetic engineering for drug resistance.
Get the picture?
Accepting bio warfare as a condition of this war is a heck of a lot more dangerous than using nuclear weapons is.
It appears that critical thinking is not your strong point. You seem to be really interested in revenge. That's understandable. That you aren't in the decision making chain is a comfort to me. Have a nice life.
Its not about revenge. It is about survival. I think it is immoral to allow an enemy that has proven willing and capable of using biologial weapons to continue to do so.