In article ink.net, Tom
Fleischman writes:


In article , Wdtabor
wrote:

To use pre-emption, you must be capable of a decisive blow. Should N. Korea
launch its 3 nukes at us tomorrow, (assuming they have them and the
delivery
capability), they would sting us, but we would then dump such nuclear fire
on
them that Godzilla's would be popping up as far away as the Aleutians.

On the other hand, we could, if that little gargoyle succeeding in really
frightening us, pre-emptively take them out.

Jesus, you sound like your mouth is watering at the thought of using
nuclear weapons. You can't seriously be advocating nuclear holocaust,
can you? Man, you are a nightmare. You remind me of the character Gen.
Buck Turgitsen in "Dr. Strangelove":

"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but it would be no
more than 20-30 million killed, tops".

You are scary, dude! You really creep me out.


Good.

That is the whole point of deterence.

If we are to live at peace, we must make sure the monsters of the world clearly
understand we have the ability AND the resolve to utterly destroy them if they
threaten us.

We cannot create a world where we sit and sing kumbaya and the monsters turn
into good guys. There will always be monsters wherever the good guys do
nothing. So the best we can do is to kill a few monsters now and then to bring
clarity to the minds of the others.

Don

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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG