[Centurion2000]

Keep dreaming...unless we have 1 million dead the middle east will still remain. You will need a body count like you have never seen for us to do anything remotely like glassing a region.

A 5 kiloton nuke in downtown Manhatten at noon on a Wednesday will do it in about .5 seconds.

[Quix]

I'm increasingly skeptical that would do it. I'm beginning to wonder if 50% of this country has ANY survival instincts AT ALL.

Yes the recent travesties in the Iraq prison are at least fairly disturbing.

But they don't hold a candle to what has routinely gone on in Iraq prisons BEFORE us and what still goes on in probably every or near every other Arab prison to this moment.

If anything--our current "worst" shows that we are still considerably better than they are at their worst.

Part of me thinks that too many "citizens," using the word loosely, would go

"Oh, my. NYC is glass. Welll, we desrved it. Pass the joint, like, OK?"

Idiots. Even their COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS would be hard pressed to get their shoes on the right feet.

Sigh.