Of course, to do so we'd have to engage in the largest act of barbarism that the world has ever seen, mass-murder on a scale that, horrible though it was, would dwarf even the Holocaust. We're probably also permanently damage the habitability of the planet, and doom countless future generations of *every* nation to shorter, radiation-poisoned lives.
But, I'm just saying, we have the ability to kill them all. The United States has the largest stockpile of nuclear weaponry in the entire world. It has more warheads than the entire rest of the world's nuclear arsenal's put together, several times over. (Which, of course, creates some hypocrisy whenever the US scolds other countries for seeking to develop nuclear weapons.)
If the Jihadists, God forbid, ever actually got the massive "war of civilizations" that they want, with every muslim in the world rising as one in some kind of horde, they'd lose. They'd all become martyrs. Because, while they have suicide bombers, we have Strategic Bombers.
So, let's hope that they never, ever manage to push things that far.
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Date: 2007-04-17 12:00 am (UTC)Of course, to do so we'd have to engage in the largest act of barbarism that the world has ever seen, mass-murder on a scale that, horrible though it was, would dwarf even the Holocaust. We're probably also permanently damage the habitability of the planet, and doom countless future generations of *every* nation to shorter, radiation-poisoned lives.
But, I'm just saying, we have the ability to kill them all. The United States has the largest stockpile of nuclear weaponry in the entire world. It has more warheads than the entire rest of the world's nuclear arsenal's put together, several times over. (Which, of course, creates some hypocrisy whenever the US scolds other countries for seeking to develop nuclear weapons.)
If the Jihadists, God forbid, ever actually got the massive "war of civilizations" that they want, with every muslim in the world rising as one in some kind of horde, they'd lose. They'd all become martyrs. Because, while they have suicide bombers, we have Strategic Bombers.
So, let's hope that they never, ever manage to push things that far.