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12-10-2006, 04:17 PM
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Appropriate Retaliation
At some future date, suppose five powerful nukes were set off near simultaneously in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia. 250,000 Americans are killed instantly. Another million or more are doomed from blast injuries and radiation. Intelligence indicates that the bombs were supplied to Al Qaeda from Country X. What do you believe would be an appropriate US response to Country X?
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12-10-2006, 04:27 PM
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Lock those responsible in a room with Dixie for a week.
That should do the trick and prevent others from performing like acts in the future.
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12-10-2006, 04:38 PM
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It was a far more serious answer than the initial question deserved.
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12-10-2006, 05:35 PM
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BTW: we just have to sit down with these folks to find out why they are mad at us. Then we can fix our selves so's these folks will let us live in peace and harmony. They's prolly jest good people like us and prolly have some bad upbringin so's they get a mite riled when they's turbuns get inna snit! And then agin....mebee we can have that great guy thatus a President before...Jimmah! hot damn...I'll bet he be glad to sit down with these folks and reason with um. I used to drink alot of his brothers beer cuz it was always on sale. But I know deep in my heart that Jimmahs the man for this portent job. He dont need no tanks..why the pure butter that flows off that mans tongue be enough to have them people ready to fix dinner for the whole United States of America....mark my words,yessir I gotta go now,these peope at Kinkos are lookin at me kinda funny
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#5
12-10-2006, 06:10 PM
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Why don't we just open about 100 Taco Belles there? That will make em s-it in their pants!
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12-10-2006, 06:14 PM
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12-10-2006, 05:20 PM
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OK... Suppose you go to the local Taco bell and order something that has scallions on it. You come down with a bad case of food poisoning due to e. coli. Since you don't drive and the public transport workers are on strike, you're forced to walk your sick carcass to the emergency room at the hospital, but it's a mile from your place. About a half mile into your trek, it starts to snow. At the 3/4 mile point, it's up to your waist, and since you forgot your parka, hypothermia is now setting on. You keep trudging, but then a bout of diarrea grabs you. Another hundred yards along, an angry gang of Innuit midgets mugs you. They beat you to a pulp and leave your sick body face down in the snow. When the spring thaw melts the snow and reveals your corpse, what do you think will be listed as the cause of your death? And who should your beneficiaries go after? Yum Brands? The weather channel? the Innuits?
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12-11-2006, 12:41 AM
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12-11-2006, 11:59 AM
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country x should be subject to a thorough investigation about their involement with the terrorist group, if there is some sort of collaboration between the two is found. I believe some sort of sanction or imposed economic policy put on the country, then the US should be able to stage millitary action in the country to ferret out the terrorist cells. Futhermore, if more evidence is found that country x and the terrorist wholeheartedly share the same views about the US, may God have mercy on their souls.
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12-11-2006, 12:16 PM
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I don't see why people are hesitant to talk about this. It may be a stupid hypothetical, but certainly possible given the state of our world.
If we could prove, unequivocally, that a country knowingly supplied nukes to a terrorist group that then nuked several major cities in our country then the course of action would be easy. I'm not talking "Iraq-style intelligence" proving....i mean REALLY, without a single doubt in anyone's mind proving it... we would then proceed to wipe them off the map. that would take care of that one. And I'm not talking Iraq-style wipe them off the map, I'm talking about literally just bombing them back to the stone age. That would certainly fix that problem.
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12-11-2006, 12:49 PM
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Though I don't disagree with you on this, I'll just say that this "game" has been played before. It was called the "cold war". It had many twists and turns. Drilling school kids to duck and cover under their little desks (I did that!), Cuban missiles, proxy wars...I could go on and on. Detante made sane people on both sides of the meaning of MAD..mutually agreed (assured) destruction. Unfortunately, the capacity to eliminate all life on the planet by thirty times (despite ABM treaties), warnings of "nuclear winter", hasn't dissuaded other nations from wanting to jump on the "nuke train". It's beyond MAD...it's insane! btw...personally, i don't think "human kind" will wimper away in this manner. It will happen because a genetically engineered virus "escapes" accidentally from a lab thats trying to "refine" bio weapons. Saves time on rebuilding infrastructure. Problem is vaccine needs to be created before it gets loose. Then the population needs to be immunized. This will tip the hand, but maybe keep the fingers off the "button". Let's hope so.
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12-11-2006, 12:52 PM
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12-11-2006, 01:04 PM
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That's why I don't think it will happen that way.
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12-18-2006, 01:32 PM
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what would result would be a full out bombing and use of all available weapons of mass destruction (including the super laser gun found in Roswell), by US forces with a little help from the UK. Country X and surronding nations would be wiped out
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