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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (27022)9/13/2001 7:52:19 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Laz, in addition to the religious and cultural significance of Mecca almost a million people live there and many more visit/go on a pilgrimage to it. Your talking about a loss of life of atleast 50 times more then the world trade center attack probably close to 200 times.

Some terrorists groups might not believe us. Some small extremly radical group might think that we will do it but then that it will get all of Islam behind them so they might go ahead and make the attacks.

I don't advocate using nukes at all. About the only scenario that might make sense to use them would be if we can find out who did it and we know he is somewhere in a camp or compund that is well away from a population center but we don't know where in the camp and need a small tac nuke to take it all out. Even then I would be reluctant to use nukes but it might make sense. Nuking a city in response to a terrorist attack would make us as evil as them.

Tim
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