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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: JungleInvestor who wrote (8685)9/26/2001 11:09:44 AM
From: kodiak_bull  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
J.I.

Thanks for the response. Remember, though, you not only have to win the war but you have to win the peace. No one will remember (or believe) that the U.S. dropped a small but safe tactical device and got all the terrorists and only the terrorists. What will be remembered is that the U.S. used NUCLEAR WEAPONS on Muslim people. No one will remember or care about the details of 4 jetliners or 7000 bodies in NYC and DC. The memory and the ignominy of using nuclear weapons on Muslim people will be on the record for hundreds of years. You might as well put a sign up sheet in every Mosque everywhere for terrorists.

I don't disagree that these weapons would be effective, but it would not be an intelligent use of them. There's just too much at stake in phase 2, the peace and rebuilding process, to bungle it in phase 1. It's a chess game; it doesn't do any good to take the other guy's queen if you end up checkmated by his knight and his bishop two moves later.

Kb
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