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Originally Posted by Peace Makes Plenty
Well put, but from 9/11 we had terrorists (mostly from Saudi Arabia) and attacked Afghanistan & Iraq.
Lets pose a hypothetical situation;
Said terrorist explodes a nuclear weapon - how would we identify who that was?
If we did, and it turns out to be say Egyptian or Somalian - how could that justify nuking either of those countries?
Lets say it was financed by Al-Queda - do we nuke Afghanistan/Iraq - why?
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Why did we go after them this time? Because terrorists may be freelance lunatics, but they need someplace sympatico to their causes to build forces. Sudan got the hint and booted them, the Taliban in Afghanistan allowed them to work openly, so they were attacked as a result.
These organizations don't operate in a vaccuum with any level of success.
Hamas, Hizbollah and the rest of the more enduring organizations enjoy patronage of a regional power to maintain their operations, or they'd be as ineffectual as groups like the Falun Gong, which are truly underground and largely powerless.
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Its a real fear - luckily, its most unlikely to happen - nuclear weapons are extremely difficult to build and require such resources that the so-called 'Axis of Evil' states would place them under strict security.
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Difficult and impossible aren't synonymous. It can be done, however difficult it may be.
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They also value their lives as much as we do, and i don't think their stupid enough to supply them.
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Call me crazy, but I don't think the guys who were in the cockpit on 9/11 had much value on their lives. The masterminds maybe self important nutjobs who think themselves touched by deities, but the guys at ground zero are usually pretty hardened fanatics ready to throw their lives away in the name of said deity.
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On the other hand, is there a possibilty of the U.S.A becoming a Christian Theocracy in future? Those Fundamentalists are just as scary, and for Nuclear Armageddon read : Rapture
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I doubt it, oh, its certainly possible for the Biblethumpers to hold sway for a while, they're just coming off about a decade of it since Gingrich took on Clinton with his "Contract With America", but the underlying truth of American political power is that it lies not in the polemics, but in the swing voters who act as the pendulum moving policy from one extreme to the next.
Its the old saying, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool everyone all the time."
People will fall for a smooth line of crap, but they eventually get tired of getting steamrolled when the polemics delude themselves into thinking they've got it all figured out.