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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (631)	12/17/2002 12:44:19 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I think my interpretation is correct, and therefore that you are taking the threat the wrong way. As I said, we have a graduated nuclear arsenal. No civilians need be targeted for us to use nuclear weapons. Your concern only makes sense if we use a "city killer" missile warhead. Otherwise, "overwhelming force" merely means a ruthless attack on actual military targets. Similarly, the Hague's ruminations on nuclear war only make sense when talking about counter- population targeting, and it admits that an exception might exist when national existence is at stake, as in the case of the use of MAD (mutually assured destruction) as a deterrent. Battlefield use of nuclear armaments does not raise the same concerns......