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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Wayners who wrote (162412)5/17/2005 7:59:25 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I don't dispute your facts. But the point was that maintaining nukes as a foreign policy tool encourages other nations into an arms race that in turn increases the chances of OBL and the like to get their hands on the material...and this is not including the "mistakes".

It is the *balance* that matters most to prediction of peace and war not the absolute amount of force. Since most countries cannot rely on the rivalry between US and USSR to keep a balance, they feel the need to develop a nuclear shield and no amount of saber rattling and scare tactics is going to stop them.

The message taken from Iraq is not the "shock and awe" of what can happen to you if we don't like you, rather get yourself a few nukes before this happens to you. If you don't like where this leads, then we should make the world feel more secure, not less.
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