@marine36:
It sounds messy, and most people wouldnt dream of such drastic measures. But if an event like what Zooey said occured, we wouldnt be playing around anymore, if some innocents get in the way, well thats to bad.
An “incident” like Zooey is discussing is the action of a few individuals, not even members of a government. Just individual nut balls.
And you say that a few individuals hitting us would merit nuking the entire Muslim world???
What if Tim McVey had parked his Ryder Truck in front of some Russian government building in Vladivostok? Would the Russians have been justified in nuking the US for it? At the very least, we have to seperate the actions of a government from the actions of individuals. At least in the case of government action, the people of that nation can be held partially responsible because they ALLOWED the government to act that way, either by electing the idiot leaders, or by failing to overthrow tyranical nut cases.
Last month a guy blew away a man and woman in their home in order to get their daughter. The guy was a resident of Pennsylvania. Are we going to nuke Pittsburgh and Philly because that guy was from there? THAT is what you are advocating.
So I guess Japan is free to attack us because of all the things our solidiers have done in Okinawa in the past several years (getting tired of reading about soldiers who can;t keep their dick in their pants and keep raping local girls, is becoming an annual event apparently). And Libya is allowed to attack us for what we did to Tripoli in '86? And Iraq is totally justified in hitting us since we have killed, according to the Bush Adminsitration’s estimates 35,000 of them???
Hell, I guess you are justified in bombing MY house since I live in North Carolina and Eric Robert Rudolph is from here. He was a terrorist, bombed clinics and the Olympics. But he was North Carolinian, so I guess you have to nuke this state off the map and damn the innocents who live here.
For gods sake Marine… you had a brain once before your buried it with a sand flea on Parris Island. THINK about what you are advocating!
