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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (62060)12/16/2002 7:15:34 PM
From: MSI  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Not using WMD as part of the war on terrorism

Yes. "...overwhelming force - including through resort to all of our options" quite clearly means using nuclear weapons against the adversary.
whitehouse.gov

Nukes are WMD's by definition. The original WMD's in fact. This threatens the use of US-made WMD's against ... who?

We aren't likely to use nuclear weapons on Al Qaeda, not that it wouldn't be fun.

That's the controversy, if you've been following it. The threat of US nukes is either real, or a posture. Either way just the announcement causes the destruction of the remaining high moral ground once occupied by the US, making the US warlords look to the rest of the world indistinguishable from the designated civilian-killing adversaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen etc.

That's the point.

...not that it wouldn't be fun

That's another point -- complete disregard of human life in foreign policy. That soon translates into domestic policy as well. You are obviously so steeped in blood-lust as to believe there is no other way than revenge and complete destruction of the designated enemy.

That is precisely the disease that brought Islam to its current malfunctioning predatory state.
Taking your position, the terrorists have won. All that's left is to play out the mutually-assured destruction and tally the megadeaths.
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