You are correct. I am not getting the point.

I agree that the leaders of Al Queda would rather send their 'soldiers' to
do their dirty work. But why would that stop them from sending someone in
with a nuke or a dirty bomb if they assume that they are well enough hidden?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:20 AM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I see you are still not getting the point.
>
> If any terroist first had nuclear weapons and by such I assume
> misslies.  Then any launch will be easy enough for other powers to
> track down the launch site, then we hit them with our own misslies.
> The point is that if say the USA where attacked with nuclear misslies,
> they would retaliate in kind, as they must, I dare say the same is
> true for my goverment over here in the UK.
>
> I doubt that Bin Laden wants to die, nor any top dog in any terrorist
> organisation, power being a corrupting influence and all that.  Nope
> we can see that when we are hit by suicide bombers, these are normaly
> young easily infulenced people who have undergone an amount of good
> ole fashioned brain washing.  Ahh the leaders though, nope I do not
> belive they would relish the idea of of being killed them selves.
>
> On Apr 14, 4:24 pm, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:53 AM, [email protected] <
> >
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Ohh my freind there is soooo much differance.  Have we in retaliation
> > > for the twin towers flown any planes into any terroist buildings?
> >
> > No but we've flown quite a few Hawk missles into 'em. ;)
> >
> > > Will we if attack by nucleuar weapns retaliat with nuclear weaponms of
> our
> > > own?
> >
> > Tactical nuclear weapons can be as small as a couple of kilotons.
> Dropping a
> > bunker buster into a fortified cave in the side of a mountain would be a
> lot
> > easier than taking it down with a few hundred troops.
> >
> > If Chicago were nuked I can't imagine much outcry if we vaporized the
> side
> > of a mountain in retaliation...
> >
> > Can you now see the huuuuge differance?
> >
> >
> >
> > > You are correct terrorists seem to rejoice in the killing of the
> > > infidel, do you honestly belive they would rechoice in being nukked in
> > > their turn if they nuke us?
> >
> > If terrorist had the same type of economy and social structure that a
> nation
> > typically has then I would agree that nuclear weapons could be a
> deterrent.
> > But terrorist organizations don't have cities or central governments.
> They
> > are usually very decentralized and worry a lot less about assets being
> taken
> > out by a single bomb. In fact, I doubt that our biggest bomb would do
> much
> > more than put a minor dent into an organization like Bin Laden's which is
> > spread across most of the planet.
>

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