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To truly understand nuclear strategy and deterrence, you have to make one tiny little leap of faith; you have to think the unthinkable, and realize that the rest of the world does not view nuclear weapons the whey we do. We view them as a horrible last resort; the CIS and China view them as the opening shot. Proposterous you say... read their warfighting strategy. They don't buy the myth of MAD. It only works if they allow it too; which they never have. The entire infrastructure of their military is set up to fight a WW3.

Go ahead, flame away. It is a lot easier to keep one's head in the sand. The truth hurts.... on this topic it hurts a lot.

This is the sadness of America's current strategic predicament, that NO ONE CARES. Football is still on Sunday. The sun came up this morning. The mall is still open. Gas is still pretty cheap. And Bush will take care of us, after all, he's a Republican. Nobody want's to make that little leap in the mind, to believe maybe just maybe the world is more complex than the Superbowl and Nascar.

We live in the most technologically advanced nation on earth. We have grown used to creature comforts and happy hour and a BMW in the driveway. Our ten year-olds have cellphones now. We have every concievable way to cheat aging, to defy nature, to enjoy our plastic paradise. And thus we refuse to drop our pompoms. Nobody can beat the Mighty USA, we have the technology to trounce anyone. Yep, we are invulnerable, nobody would dream of using nuclear weapons, they are just too horrible..... ZZZZZZZZZZZ