Nuke em! Nuke em Now!

Chuckmorse.com ^ | Oct. 30, 2001 | Chuck Morse

[Poohbah]

Please explain what strategic purpose of the United States would be served by a strategy of "Nuke em! Nuke em Now!"

How many weapons? What targeting schema? What metric of effectiveness? When do we declare victory? How do we handle an enemy whose need for urban areas is much less than our own?

[NewAmsterdam]

NUKE CHUCKMORSE NOW!!!!!!!!! Before it is too late. Ah well, never mind.

[Patria One]

LOL.. not a bad idea.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

FOXNEWS reporter in describing air attacks on Taliban troops front line used the words "mushroom cloud".

Hmmmmmmm.

[CARTOUCHE]

How would nuking stop ALL of them? Now, poisoning them would be much more effective and have much less an impact on the global environment. Hell, why don't we just round 'em all up and ship 'em on boxcars to the gas chambers. Would we include the Red Chinese? The Shining Path? The IRA? The Aryan Nation? Milosevich, the apartheid conspirators of South Africa? Nuking them in 1945 made sense, in 2001 it is a sign many of us have lost our senses.

[KellyAdmirer]

Nuke what, exactly? A bunch of camels and the sand they're standing on? Just what does Afghanistan have in one known place that is worthy of nukes?

What I think people who call for nukes really want is to just nuke the whole region. Well, that's sure not the way to win friends and influence people among the rest of the world. Or perhaps we should just nuke the rest of the world, too?

Could wind up being mighty lonely on this rock if things get out of hand. Mighty hot, too. Ever think of that?

[CARTOUCHE]

Does a Neutron bomb make a mushroom cloud? Any experts hereabouts who can answer that one?

[aomagrat]

[OWK]

Settle down you hysterical nut.

[surfer]

Fuel air bombs create mushroom cloud and are extremely effective even in for trenches and caves...all oxygen is immediately consumed when exploded...had a devasting affect on Iraqi soldiers buried in bunkers in Gulf War.

[Enduring Freedom]

Here's the idea...

Light up Afghanistan so it burns for 1,000 years.

Explain to the world that the next state-sponsored terrorist attack against any American citizen anywhere on Earth will result in the immediate lighting of that country such that, it too, will burn for 1,000 years.

Any individual terrorist attack will result in the terrorist's associates and immediate family being summarily executed. This would have the effect of somewhat tempering the enthusiasm that his friends, wife and family might otherwise exhibit for his 'heroic' deeds. It would in all likelihood end terrorism for all time.

Question for you:

What part of the above do you not understand?

[concerned about politics]

Your picture looks like whip cream. Makes me hungry.

[Renegade]

From the news video of the explosion it looked like a "bunker buster" was dropped on top of the hill

[surfer]

they are all impervious to poison as evidenced by the people still living after adopting their sick religous beliefs which is a very powerful poison...

[Clinton's a rapist]

I agree with the author. This elevator is going all the way to the bottom. The rubicon of biological warfare has been crossed. This conflict will not end until the Islamic world has been on the receiving end of American nuclear weapons, IMO. The first and, one hopes, last target should be Saddam Hussein: all his palaces, bunkers, C&C, and inventories of chemical and biological weapons. At least nobody will miss him. Regrettably, thanks to the fecklessness of the Clinton administration, it seems likely that he will make us pay a terrible price for taking him out, but I see no acceptable alternative.

[boris]

"How many weapons? What targeting schema? What metric of effectiveness? When do we declare victory? How do we handle an enemy whose need for urban areas is much less than our own?"

Eventually I am afraid it will come to this. Eventually somebody is gonna ignite a pocket nuke in NYC or Washington, D.C., or spread smallpox throughout America and Europe.

Then all of your questions will not matter.

For starters, the capitol cities of all the terrorist states, such as Riyadh, Tripoli, Islamabad, Cairo, Aden, et al. Next, important Islamic sites, such as Mecca.

That would be a start, and from here it looks like it will happen eventually, so let's get it over with.

--Boris

[aomagrat]

Nah, that's albino broccoli.

[ChadGore]

I favor the use of efficient weapons on the battlefield.