Al Smith wrote:
My worthless opinion: it will happen sooner or later. Look at what
happened to the attempts to keep nuclear secrets in the West. It does
not work. And when a more potent or congruent weapon makes an
appearance, that will be used too. So it is more important to plan how
to deal with a situation, rather than to aim to destroy some
media-visible "site" in a foreign country. Any US attack is just a
chance for that many more people to hate it. And you might say, so
what? And in that case, you have no right to complain about suicide
bombers, assassinations, kidnappings, and the way people do business
in other parts of the world. I agree that force is a part of the whole
flow of human endeavour, but so are calls for reason - it is no doubt
quite a good thing for the current economic systems when war and
destruction flare up, but we could also try something else instead.


Here's how the United States can try something new -- just stop
invading, attacking, and bombing other countries. Wait until they
invade the USA, or at least talk about invading the USA, before
you blow them to hell, kill a hundred thousand of their people,
and depose the government. A lot fewer people will hate Americans,
if you just stop killing their families.

Randy Newman put his 2 cents in about this in 1968 with his song
"Political Science":

No one likes us
I don't know why.
We may not be perfect
But heaven knows we try.
But all around even our old friends put us down.
Let's drop the big one and see what happens.

We give them money
But are they grateful?
No they're spiteful
And they're hateful.
They don't respect us so let's surprise them;
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them.

Now Asia's crowded
And Europe's too old.
Africa is far too hot,
And Canada's too cold.
South America stole our name.
Let's drop the big one; there'll be no one left to blame us.

Bridge:
We'll save Australia;
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo.
We'll build an all-American amusement park there;
They've got surfing, too.

Well, boom goes London,
And boom Paree.
More room for you
And more room for me.
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town.
Oh, how peaceful it'll be;
We'll set everybody free;
You'll have Japanese kimonos, baby,
There'll be Italian shoes for me.
They all hate us anyhow,
So let's drop the big one now.
Let's drop the big one now.

Joe