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"Rob van Riel" wrote in message om... "Blair Maynard" wrote in message .. . So you are saying that the current administration is being very bad because it is "intimidating" other nations with nukes everybody knows it can't use? Kinda difficult to believe. Not really. It is my opinion that using nukes would produce a terrible backlash against the US. Not everyone shares that view, and the US might consider it worth the price even if it were commonly accepted. Well, of course there is always a threat of a "stupid" use of nuclear weapons. It sounds like you are saying that countries will act in fear of nuclear destruction because they might believe the US would be "stupid" enough to use them (and suffer the obvious negative worldwide backlash). Of course that is a possibility any country would have to consider, they might become a martyr to turn world opinion against the US. But the "stupidity card" goes both ways. As illustrated by events over the last fifty years. Plenty of nations have volunteered to be the martyrs, and the US has not played it's "stupidity card" and made them such. I see more "stupidity" all over the world than in US foreign policy. Would you rather trust all nations in the world not to be "stupid" or just the US and other countries in the current "nuclear club"? That's one hell of a risk to take. It's going to be a bit difficult to enjoy the backlash effects while permanetly fused to a molten country (I know, that's exagerating the effects of nuclear attack, but you get the idea) In any case, how do you know it is not the threat of conventional force which is "intimidating" other nations? It's part of the total package. What the US seems to be saying, is that it will use conventional force only, unless the opponent of the day does something it really doesn't like, in which case it will go nuclear. Being sufficiently successful against the US itself (not US troops) definately seems to be a criterion these days. Of course, it is rather unlikely that any single nation could be that effective in the current situation. Rob |
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