SMad will likely not work with say, an Iranian guv mint, but it worked ok with the Sovs. You fear a Pyrrhic victory, I fear capitulation.
honestly see the connection with my comment. MAD is posturing, the end result of which is NOT to have a war. But the original question was IF we had a war, THEN why hold back? Which I thought I answered quite sensibly. -----Original Message----- From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 10:56 pm Subject: Re: American Intelligence On 1 July 2014 00:38, spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: I tend to agree with your sentiments, Telmo. My idea, should you care, is that if one goes to war, half measures and quarter measures end up quite badly. If one can achieve peace, justice, and free beer, without doing violence to one's fellow primates, this is a great thing. But it is not assured, that simply because one tries a peaceable track, that it will even work. So, if one fights, why hold back? Because all out nuclear war would make large chunks of the planet uninhabitable? Well, I somehow do remember MAD, and it worked with the Sovs, but I suspect less so with Iran, Isis and North Kor. Do you disagree? (I assume that the above comment is intended as a reply to my comment above, which was a reply to the comment above that...) If so, the original question was "if one fights, why hold back?" to which I replied that not holding back might destroy the planet. To which spudboy100 says he "somehow does remember MAD" - I don't honestly see the connection with my comment. MAD is posturing, the end result of which is NOT to have a war. But the original question was IF we had a war, THEN why hold back? Which I thought I answered quite sensibly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
