John Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree, if you are twisted, and want the power of fear over people to > control them with more draconian measures and to start a war because you > want people to support for conquest, and lowering the population, > overthrowing governments and because it would cause huge financial gain for > military manufacturing. > You seem to have no feel for how big a thermonuclear bomb explosion is, or what it would do. I can imagine a small attack fitting the purposes you describe. Even a larger one such as the 9/11 aircraft attacks. But anything on the scale of single nuclear bomb in Washington DC would not cause a "financial gain" -- it would destroy money as we know it. There is no conceivable "financial gain" from the explosion of a thermonuclear bomb, in any city on earth. That cannot benefit anyone. The extent of the damage would be unimaginable. The smallest modern bomb is far larger than the Hiroshima bomb, which was a horror you cannot begin to conceive of. Not only the physical damage, but also damage to things like the stock market, the financial markets, healthcare, infrastructure or insurance. Those institutions would cease to exist. Every life and property insurance company would be instantly bankrupt. There isn't enough money in all the insurance companies in the world to cover the damages or pay off the policies. There are many wealthy people in Washington, DC. The population density is high. If you were to set off a bomb in a small city in North Carolina or the Midwest, the economy would survive. It is cruel to say this, but that would kill far fewer people, and most of the victims would have smaller life insurance policies. > They may be ignorant, stupid, or self-centered, but they are not insane. >> Bush was the closest person that fit this category, but he is gone along >> with the rest of his group. >> > > I am afraid that I am unable to understand the sense in a great many > things that are done. > There are degrees of senselessness. There are mistakes, big mistakes, horrendous mistakes, and then there are things like the Battle of the Somme or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Governments seldom make mistakes on the latter scale. - Jed
