Slashdot Mirror
How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?
Loconut1389 writes "According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon has a revised doctrine to be signed in the next few weeks would give the president the authority for a preemptive nuclear strike. I would hope that this is a move designed to say we mean business and then never use it, but the means is there for mutual assured destruction."
There are still 3 people in Congo who think Bush is the best President the world has ever seen. This will teach them.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Why should we worry? It's not like we have a hair-trigger cowboy with his finger on the button...
This is so bad. Seriously, next time N. Korea decides to toy with us diplomatically we have more to worry about than negotiations breaking down. Next time W. says someone has WMD's, we could have him launching nukes?
If a small group of evil men want to kill Johnny and his family and destroy his country and his way of life, then yes, maybe he should see about stopping them ahead of time.
This is very scary. Bush and company have already shown how to botch a terrorist capture, attack a totally unrelated country, allowing an islamist theocracy to erupt, and sleep in while a major city is flattened by nature. Hell, doing something stupid with a nuke is about all that's left on the "to do" list. This group has already proven beyond a doubt they don't have what it takes to handle this sort of responsiblity.
You seem to be under the erroneous impression that the current administration gives a radioactive rat's ass about "the world community as a whole".
I'm not saying that their stance is correct, just calling it as I see it.
- Sometimes you're the pidgeon, sometimes you're the statue.
Suitecase nuclear bombs are not practicle.
WRONG....wrong wrong wrong wrong W.R.O.N.G!
Are you going to tell me that open US boarders along Mexico and their government wont keep track what goes inside the boarders of THEIR country. Once a suitcase nuke gets transported on an 18 wheeler and passed the boarder to inside the US, we are totally, royally, and utterly FUCKED.
Fact is, an Islamic wackjob WILL detonate this as a nuclear carbomb all in the name of Alah and the profit Mohamid. For the love off all that is logic an pure in this world, open your eyes! We are not fighting "terrorism" we are fighting a holy war waged against western civilization. So lets drop the political correctness bullshit and call it what it is. It's a HOLY WAR, pure and simple!
Life is not for the lazy.
The problem is, GWB has no interest in "other methods", which makes me think that he is more interested in the fighting than in the resolving.
:)
Wha there. Look, I'm not huge fan of Bush (though I did vote for him), but what "other methods" is he over looking? What would you have done different?
Fact is, we cannot make peace with these Islamic radicals. Either they drop their weapons and live a peacefull life, or we hunt them down in their neighborhood. I don't wish for war by any means, but when push comes to shove, you cant just take the hit in hopes they will never bother you again. It would seem the UK is just now starting to realise this at a personal level. And if I say so myself, they executed a response much more quickly and efficiently then our government in the US.
Funny I would say this, but the Pentagon should be taking notes from the UK. Talk about a job well done (except for that last part of gunning down an innocent brazilian..oops)
Life is not for the lazy.
Why not? Because you don't want to?
...but Al Quaeda, no. Not unless you submit to the Korean and it's teaching. There is no middle compromise. Don't even try and argue this fact.
Correct.
Because we do not wish to embrace the radical teachings of the Koran and disregard democrocy. According to these wack-jobs, democrocy is a form of hubris that steps beyond the laws written in the Koran. As such, democrocy is goes against Alah. Theocratic rule is the ONLY form of acceptable government.
Note: Islam is translated roughly as "Submission" or "To surrender one's self (to God)"
If you get the rest of the Islamic world on your side, they'll be trivially easy to defeat.
That is VERY hard to do. Even among peaceful muslims, there is this duty and form of honor to never turn against another muslim regardless of thier evil deads. It's like turning against a brother or syster. All muslims see eachother as a family unit. Even though they see Al Quaeda as radical, they will never turn against them as it would be a great dishonor in their own culture. The best you can hope for is they will just turn a blind eye and not associate themselves with this group. That said however, they will also not prevent us for dealing with their miss guided breathren. In a nut shell, don't expect any help from the Islamic community to solve our problems.
What? The UK has been living with terrorism for years (strangely enough, mainly funded out of the US). We know what it is, we know how to continue living our lives without running around like scared kids with machine guns.
Ya, but unlike the political feuds from the IRA, these Islamic terrorist are blowing *themselves* up. How do you rationalise with a terror group that doesn't even value his or her own life? Speaking of the IRA, after the attacks of 911, they more or less layed low. They know it was best not to be associated with their level of radicalism. At least there was always a hope of making peace with the IRA through political means.
Life is not for the lazy.
Greetings, Professor Fuck-up.
If that's his conclusion, then let's face it, he's a drooling idiot.
Does he think that if America destroyed its nuclear weapons, China would follow suit?
Hahahahahaha!
Morons.
The debates have been held, you pathetic wankers. We know exactly what the use of nuclear weapons would mean. The difference is that we are grown-ups and you are petulant whining children, and we understand and accept that there really are people who want to kill us.
Rape, sexual abuse, beatings, setting dogs onto prisoners ... this is all documented. Several people were convicted of these crimes and are are serving time in jail right now.
But the truly outrageous thing about it is not just the crimes themselves; bad enough, though hardly a patch on Saddam's boys. No, what's even more outrageous is that the American regime actually claims that this is not torture. They say it's "technically different". Oh that's ok then.
Even more disgusting (to me, at least, since I had no respect for Rumsfeld et al anyway) is the capacity for self-delusion shown by some apparently ordinary American citizens who will publicly sign up to this double-speak, and join in the fun of papering over evil acts with "nice" words.
I'm sure when Bush nukes some Arab country there'll be plenty more idiots prepared to line up behind their fuhrer and promise themselves that it was all for the freedom and democracy and apple pies. The rest of the world can do stuff-all about it, but don't expect us to actually believe the "beacon of freedom" bullshit.
someone just needs to preemtively blow USA to hell and dont anyone dare call me a terrorist for saying so without calling the american government a fu*king murdering bunch of terrorists first!
If they actually sign this I'm gonna have to start supporting the idea of my nation becoming a nuclear nation and frankly I'd really much rather not, but with a bunch of murderers with so many weapons already, getting this kind of idea into their heads, its going to become a neccessity.
I'm so bloody sick and tired of USA this USA that.. USA the biggest pile of selfcentered bullshit! Just blow up and go visit that "God" you trust so much. Europe at least has some BRAINS upstairs!
The US was wrong about the presence of WMD in Iraq. Therefore, the US will always be wrong, can never rely on any intelligence, and will always be unjustified in any future conflict.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.