America’s WMD Doctrine: Would It Deter a Nuclear 9/11?
I remember the general panic (especially among liberals and expressed by Hollyweird’s releases of nuclear holocast flicks) of the early 80′s when Regean got into an arms race with the USSR. I was never concerned. I knew the Soviets were rational enough not to start a nuclear war – they understood what they would lose. I also believed Reagan would not start one – he understood what was at stake. I find it interesting that recently released interviews with high ranking soviet military reveals just that.
On the other hand, petty two-bit third world dictators had nothing to lose. Again, the released soviet military interviews talk of having to get Castro to chill – seems he kept bugging mother russia to bomb the US. Only when the soviets convinced him that HE would have nuclear fallout to deal with did he shut up.
Now we have religious fanatics who believe they are the only “true” religion and anyone who doens’t convert and subject themselves to their rule will be destroyed in this life. by the religious fanatics. with whatever weapon is available. These may be petty two-bit third world tyrants, but they are extremely dangerous. Rationality is not in their lexicon. If we (or russia or china) were to drop a nuclear bomb on them to get them to chill, they’d celebrate all the martyrs and lob as many bombs, missles, or whatever else they had in their arsnel just as fast as they could.
Remember, i’manutjob thinks Iran developing (and probably using) a nuclear weapon will usher in the mahdi. As long as he has one or more to throw back, he won’t care if one is dropped on his country. After all, jihadi’s do use women and children as shields.
