03-25-2003, 04:21 AM
Occhi, i think you are trying to make the US look wiser than it is or ever has been.
And I think, just as you give us too much credit, you give too little credit to rogue nations. It's not that they are so foolish that they don't realize nukes are terrible weapons. A nuke is the only way a small despised nation can protect itself, as the current situation in Iraq demonstrates to some. We are saying we are getting rid of Saddam because he has weapons of mass destruction. But I think Saddam, and other rogue dictators, look at it as, "this is happening because we don't have a sufficiently scary weapon of mass destruction." Ie if Saddam had nukes he's 100% safe short of CIA assassination, and if I were Saddam i would rig it so nukes go off the second i die, and let the US know that. And if I were the President of Iran I would be rolling up my sleeves and helping out however I can including mopping the floor to get a nuke asap because they have to be thinking they are next after Iraq. Why is that so "stupid"?
And your condescending tone about India and Pakistan ignores the reality that, if Pakistan did not have nukes India would have ruined them years ago. How precarious does a nation's situation have to be for the US to sign a defense treaty that might put us at war with the world's largest democracy? Because we had a defense treaty with Pakistan until recently. Your scorn here should be directed at Lord Mountbatten, not Pakistan and India, because if Pakistan had listened to the US and not developed nukes, it might not be in existence right now. It would certainly be smaller.
And I think you are completely ignoring our role in Saddam's use of chem weapons against Iran in the 80s. We're the best guys around, but that does not mean we've been angels.
PS- Is Japan a nuclear power? Not power reactors, but bomb-wise. I did not think it was.
PPS- France is most assuredly not a responsible nuclear power. They pick the most ecologically sensitive, most beautiful spots in the world and test explode nukes there on a regular basis. Or so Greenpeace tells me...
And I think, just as you give us too much credit, you give too little credit to rogue nations. It's not that they are so foolish that they don't realize nukes are terrible weapons. A nuke is the only way a small despised nation can protect itself, as the current situation in Iraq demonstrates to some. We are saying we are getting rid of Saddam because he has weapons of mass destruction. But I think Saddam, and other rogue dictators, look at it as, "this is happening because we don't have a sufficiently scary weapon of mass destruction." Ie if Saddam had nukes he's 100% safe short of CIA assassination, and if I were Saddam i would rig it so nukes go off the second i die, and let the US know that. And if I were the President of Iran I would be rolling up my sleeves and helping out however I can including mopping the floor to get a nuke asap because they have to be thinking they are next after Iraq. Why is that so "stupid"?
And your condescending tone about India and Pakistan ignores the reality that, if Pakistan did not have nukes India would have ruined them years ago. How precarious does a nation's situation have to be for the US to sign a defense treaty that might put us at war with the world's largest democracy? Because we had a defense treaty with Pakistan until recently. Your scorn here should be directed at Lord Mountbatten, not Pakistan and India, because if Pakistan had listened to the US and not developed nukes, it might not be in existence right now. It would certainly be smaller.
And I think you are completely ignoring our role in Saddam's use of chem weapons against Iran in the 80s. We're the best guys around, but that does not mean we've been angels.
PS- Is Japan a nuclear power? Not power reactors, but bomb-wise. I did not think it was.
PPS- France is most assuredly not a responsible nuclear power. They pick the most ecologically sensitive, most beautiful spots in the world and test explode nukes there on a regular basis. Or so Greenpeace tells me...