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From: spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]>
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.
That is bullshit -- couch potato general man -- you don't know that! And the BS
you just spouted is directly contradicted by the US CIA and military
assessments of the Iranian regime, that have all concluded that it is a
rational actor. You really should refrain from prognosticating on military
affairs, of which you are consistently wrong on and for which you display a
surprising ignorance -- perhaps due to your being psychologically crippled by
your own passionate hatred of Islam.
Go eat a doughnut or something.
Chris [happy that spudboy will never be a general or involved in defense
planning]
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.
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From: LizR <[email protected]>
To: everything-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 10:56 pm
Subject: Re: American Intelligence
On 1 July 2014 00:38, spudboy100 via Everything List
<[email protected]> 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?
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>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?
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(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.
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