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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (229467)	8/15/2013 2:21:17 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542967

You do agree right that the nations that have WMD's do subscribe to some ethical concepts about their use no? You, of course, failed to limit your initial generalization to WMDs. Thus the problem with your argument. If you just focus on this limited concept, I'm a bit more of a realist when it comes to foreign policy stuff. While admitting that the national rhetoric of the set who own WMDs is, with a couple of possible exceptions, filled with ethical terms about the conditions of their use, it's unlikely that the actual use or not will follow those same concepts. But we are discussing college room bull session level stuff. If you actually look at the nations with WMDs and expand that notion beyond just nuclear devices, there are quite a few in the set. Do you have any idea what the formal rhetoric, let alone the predictable practice of North Korea and Pakistan is? I don't. And that leaves out the unknown set of countries that have, or have had in recent years, biological weapons of mass destruction. So, no, I don't agree with your statement.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (229467)	8/15/2013 3:40:43 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542967

You do agree right that the nations that have WMD's do subscribe to some ethical concepts about their use no? Partially.. Since you have limited your definition of WMD's to nuclear weapons, which we agree on regardless of Bush's excuses for attacking Iraq, I am not sure how accurate your assertion is, or rather which ethical constructs you have in mind.. Bearing in mind that the only nation who has belligerently employed said WMD's is the US... What ethical concepts do you feel guided us in their use?