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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (1860)	12/13/2004 10:34:10 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1968

"So in the future when Korea, China or someone else launches a nuke at us you will be whining why we didn't have a missile defense system(just like the humvees)." Doubt it. For one thing, I didn't say anything about humvees. For another, no one is going to launch a single nuke. They are going to launch enough to ensure that we aren't going to have assets with which to respond. Anything else is foolish. So if there is a launch, the survivors will be busy doing other things than complaining. And the brutal fact of the matter is they can't kill all of our assets. Nailing the subs, all of the missile silos, SAC bases and other nuclear assets just isn't going to be done by North Korea or China for the next few decades. Anybody who tries to marshall what they need to pull that off would send all kinds of signals before they could actually launch. Plenty of time to react in some appropriate manner. However, given the typical Republican response of reacting to a threat by, say China, by invading Brazil for instance, we might be in trouble...

To: longnshort who wrote (1860)	12/14/2004 12:14:13 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

Re: So in the future when Korea, China or someone else launches a nuke at us... What if "someone else" is the reincarnation of Timothy McVeigh? What if "someone else" is the same people who blackmailed prominent US citizens with anthrax-laden letters?