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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, 05:20 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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12-10-2006, 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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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, 06:25 PM
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Send it on.
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12-10-2006, 08:01 PM
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I'm sorry but I try not to deal in hypotheticals regarding the worst possible day in the history of the world.
Call me an optimist, but I hope this never happens.
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12-10-2006, 09:09 PM
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if you present a hypothetical, especially one as hard to fathom as this, do you really think you'd get other than a hypothetical answer?
personally, i think the punishment BTW suggested would be fitting. the taco bell/public transport scenario was really funny, one of the funniest posts i've seen in a while.
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12-10-2006, 09:09 PM
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Nobody took my suggestion seriously.
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12-10-2006, 09:09 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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12-10-2006, 09:11 PM
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oh, and i forgot to answer the question. what to do to country x...
supply them with a t.v. that only provides reality programming. enough american idol and survivor, they'd beg for mercy. oh, and while they watch said shows, they would have to listen to michael bolton and john tesh. a little kenny g now and then just for fun.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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12-10-2006, 09:22 PM
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I met Kenny G once. He's a friend of a friend of mine. I had no idea who he was. He was actually very nice.
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12-10-2006, 09:33 PM
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The point of the question is to raise a fundamental issue about morality. Is there ever a line that can be crossed by the terrorist that would make it acceptable to kill innocents in order to stop the bad guys. The scenario I postulated is one that may have to be faced someday. Is it justifiable to kill 100 to save 1000, or kill 100,000 to save 10 million? Maybe it's justifiable to kill 1000 to save 100. I really don't know. Perhaps it boils down to a simple matter of self defense...better them than us.
Then there is the matter as to the identity of country X. If it was Russia or China, a significant retaliatory strike would be something else indeed than if country X was Iran or Pakistan. Of course we could also take the view that in spite of country X's culpability in the matter, it was still the terrorist that actually instigated the attack, and only they should feel the wrath of retaliation. I'm sorry that some of you found this question too silly to debate, but I assure you, the scenario I offered is under consideration as a future threat by various "think-tank" firms as to both emergency response and appropriate retaliation matters. I admit to exaggerating the "best guess" expected devastation by an order of magnitude to emphasize the point.
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12-10-2006, 09:39 PM
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That was 14 years ago, Bolton cut his hair...I lost mine! what was the question???
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12-11-2006, 12:41 AM
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