At 09:42 12-9-01 -0400, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>The only way we could have prevented this is to
>abandon Israel - and thus condemn it to destruction. I refuse to be
>complicit in the completion of what Hitler started.
Minor detail: Hitler could not possibly have wanted the destruction of the
State of Israel -- for the simple reason that the State of Israel was only
founded *after* WW2.
But I know what you mean...
>There is nothing particularly special about dying from a nuclear bomb.
I would not know. I have not yet been killed by a nuclear bomb...
If and when that happens, I will try to contact you from The Great Beyond
and tell you if it was a "special" way of dying...
>Either it is okay to use nuclear weapons to retaliate in this situation -
>or it is never okay, and deterrence is nonsense, and the _only_ thing that
>can defend us from other country's ICBMs is NMD, since it is "insane" in
>Jeroen's words, to use our nuclear weapons to defend or avenge American
>citizens. Pick one.
You are getting posts mixed up, Gautam. I only used the word "insane" in my
post about the IRA. If you want to quote me, at least have the courtesy to
do it properly.
Jeroen
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