Damned if you do, damned if you don't. After all these half-baked wars from Korea to now there simply is no solution to proactive rogues in this nutty world. In our own county we can't even wipe out druglords, perverts and the Mafia, let alone Islamic crazies. As some have suggested, give up trying before we totally drain our monetary and human treasures and concentrate on the nut cases here.
Due to Israels size, it wouldn't take much to annihilate it, Iran is much larger. If Iran thought it could get in a pre-emptive strike and minimize a retaliatory strike by Israel, I believe they would try. As far as the 50/50 goes I was referring to outside support for/against. An attack on Israel, US peaceniks would be protesting a US counter attack. There would be few of those voices if a device exploded in the US.
On NK, I agree. But I am not too sure of Iran. Cults are irrational things.
Sorry, did not mean to come off as lecturing, rather informing. And not necessarily you (I am aware of your war record and service). It was more a generic dissertation for those trying to shame the US for using them.
I think we can all agree that it's use saved plenty of American and Japanese lives in the long run. I don't believe the US will be the next to use a nuke, but I do hope it will be the last to use it.
Doc, Iran might use a terrorist group to deploy a nuke, but I believe that target would be in Israel, not the US. Any device used in the Middle-East is going to have Iran's stink all over it. The thing is there are many nations that support Israels destruction, are indifferent, or have populations that support anti-semitism. The difference between the US and Israel is that Israel can't mount a continuous strategic campaign (though I'm sure they are working on that as we speak), the US can. The Israelis might be able to destroy a few cities (with their own nukes), but the US can incinerate the whole of Iran (not saying we would). The question is would the US retaliate (with nukes) for Israel, if Israel were nuked? I'm not so sure we would. I am sure this administration would send a angry letter.
This administration? Or any? This one would send the letter even if NY city was nuked.
More to the point our president does not want to fight a war. he is against victory and has said so.
I like the way Reagan fought the terrorists. Hunt them down quietly and dispose of the bodies without anyone noticing. The terrorists were too busy looking for the dead leader they did not have time to attack us.
The problem is the US only uses propaganda on it's own citizens not the enemy. Hell we can make movies like "Avatar" yet we can make a clip of Bin Laudin buttf**king a goat and distributing in in the middle east. No creativity.
During WWII the media was on our side, since then they have not been and we lose. Almost every movie about the war has made us look bad around the world. Go figure why we are hated.
Saddly, I agree.
Well, you have to remember who was president then as well. Even though Vietnam was also a democrat war, today's idiots still think of it as Nixon's war.
Not at all, I remember them. I also remember how fast they ran away as soon as it was okay to stop supporting the troops and the war. it was done to cover their butts so they could point to that coverage when people say why are you not supporting your country.