Posted on 06/30/2004 4:57:05 AM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm
What makes you so sure? Just because if you were in his shoes, that's what you'd do?
Make no mistake about it...we're not just fighting one looney and his band of Merry Men. We're fighting global Islam, who are out to kill or convert us. The Asian mindset is much, much more patient than ours...if the Islamofascists thought they could deliver to us not just a body blow, but a knockout punch, that's exactly what they'd do. Why set off one nuke that would destroy one city, and hurt our economy, when they could set off 20 nukes, destroy/flatten 10-20 cities and demolish our economy? From what I've inferred from "The Art of War", to an Asian mind, that would be worth a few more years of planning and maneuvering.
Just my two cents.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Well if your right, then he thinks he's got all the time in the world to plan the attack. Hopefully we are putting a little more pressure on him which is forcing him to play his hand.
Patience plus a nuclear weapon equals a fizzle yield.
I'm not an atomic engineer like you, and I've learned over the years I'm not the most optimistic guy on the block. But in matters of national security, it may be a good idea not to just slough off potential threats like this as merely a means to sell a book.
But, with the facts as presented, that's the way to bet.
how many of those have been set off only to find out they were ripped off.
I have a feeling you're right, in that the former Soviet scientists sold a bunch of them which were ultimately (and thankfully) inoperative.
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