Yes, as are flat-out statements we wouldn’t do it under any circumstances.

Christoph on September 15, 2007 at 10:10 AM

Which of couse I never suggesed. If you want to know all the options that are on the table you will need to climb t the top of the ranks of the military or political structure.
And once you learned that information you would be bound to secrecy and not be able to share it with your internet buds…. You would simply say “all options are on the table and we reserve the right to use what is appropriate”

I think it was Bulgarian intelligence, not the KGB.

madne0 on September 15, 2007 at 12:28 PM

Same difference.

Hmm, didn’t the KGB have a Turk try to whack Pope JPII?

Little Boomer on September 15, 2007 at 10:12 AM

I think it was Bulgarian intelligence, not the KGB.

Well…while we are spending billions and billions every month in Iraq countries like Iran and N. Korea are getting Nukes and we are doing absolutely nothing about it! Sorry but this administration is failing at their job of protecting America!

sabbott on September 15, 2007 at 7:41 AM

N. Korea already has nukes. I’ll agree with you, though, that NK is yet another failure of the US State department’s eager willingness to negotiate with terrorist states (see also palestine, et al).

But we’re already waging war with iran, or more precisely they with us, in Iraq. And don’t you think establishing US bases, full of battle-hardened, tried and true Troops in Iraq is a militarily smart move, given the inevitable full-on conflict soon to come with iran and syria, who are right next door? Not to mention helping to secure a huge source of oil resources Iraq to help mitigate the temporary losses for the world supply when we degrade the iranian supplies?

Step back and look at the bigger picture. What would you have us do instead? Where would you have our forces be located right now?

Yet another good example of why making flat statements or promies like “We will nuke mecca if we get hit” are irresponsible.

Bradky on September 15, 2007 at 1:18 AM

Yes, as are flat-out statements we wouldn’t do it under any circumstances.

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Their population and need for security of raw materials and food will make them do it.

Keep in mind that the Chinese and Indians are not all that friendly, and between them, the two countries account for over 1/3 of the world’s entire population.

As the saying goes: Honor the Threat”.

That’s a couple of lines. Read between them.

see-dubya on September 15, 2007 at 1:41 AM

I’ve been reading between those lines ever since the Berlin Wall fell and I looked to the guy next to me in my class in high school and said, “At least we knew who our enemies were.”

After that I started thinking about how most 3rd world countries are more advanced than the U.S. was in the 1800s. Electicity was such an amazing new thing that only the most advanced countries could harness, and how now any kid with a potato can make a lightbulb glow. It ocurred to me that in 100 years every country would be a nuclear power.

- The Cat

The person didn’t need to detonate the bomb, just activate the sensor, which I thought was ingenious at the time.

Then, when the sensor detected a car it detonated the bomb.

Even then they were lucky to kill him. The victim didn’t die from the blast. A piece of the door cut through his leg and he bled to death.

At least that’s how I remember it. That was a long time ago.

…and that they are indeed working.

That’s a couple of lines. Read between them.
see-dubya on September 15, 2007 at 1:41 AM

Hmmm…that’s a pretty scary story I just read between them lines.

We must limit–at tremendous cost–the number of nations that have nuclear weapons

That’s a couple of lines. Read between them.

We must limit–at tremendous cost–the number of nations that have nuclear weapons to the ones who can be trusted with them…

Sorry, see-dub, but we’ve got that old post-horse-departure barn-door problem. Pakistani nuclear arms merchant A.Q. Khan has recently been released from even house arrest. This is the same guy who has said that the West is inherently hostile to Islam.

If he has the goods and decides to pass them on to be used against U.S. interests, I think tracks could be well enough covered that we’d never find out that some new “Peoples’ Underground Liberation Jihad of East Beejeezus” was supplied by Khan.

Sweet dreams!

Ugh.

Maybe that’s the next thing… proxy wars from both sides, since fighting unconventional wars with conventional forces is unpopular, expensive, and time-consuming. An army of anonymous mercenaries; Patton would roll over in his grave.