> J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> > If the US would be crazy enough to use nuclear weapons, then you better
> > pray that your god has mercy on all Americans -- because there is no
doubt
> > in my mind that many more of them will then die in terrorist attacks.
>
K Street wrote:
> That's not an appropriate thing to say at this time, Jeroen.
>
Even though it would be very likely with that series of events?
Just brining the prospect of nuclear weapons in response to today's
events is inappropriate. I'm sure nobody is considering that the US
would respond that way. Except Gautam, who basically ranted the threat:
"Evildoers beware: we will stop at nothing - NOTHING for revenge!"
You guys totally ignored the rest of Jeroen's post, talking about
not killing innocent people in response to the terrorist attacks.
-- Matt Grimaldi
I have spoken to _four_ professors of International Relations at the
Kennedy School of Government today who thought that a nuclear response
would be appropriate, were this an act of state-sponsored terrorism. I
_hope_ that no innocent people are killed in our response. But I refuse to
stand around handcuffed by that fear. Some innocents almost certainly will
be killed by any response we make. I'm sorry about that. But a lot of
innocent people died today, and the worst thing we could do is to dither in
moral paralysis for fear that anything we do might cause a response.
Nothing we did caused today's attacks. Nothing possibly could. They
happened because there are evil people in the world who hate the United
States. The American government failed today. It must do something to
begin to repair that. The first thing it can do is make sure that those
who did this pay - _whatever it takes to make that necessary_. The gloves
_should_ come off.
Gautam
