@ whiskey:

Fascinating that Benj & the other apologists can’t get one major point through their thick heads: If a major nuclear conflict starts, it’s going to be the Blue States that will suffer the most. With a few exceptions like Orange County, built-up urban areas have high concentrations of Democratic voter blocs – blacks, hispanics, Jews, gays, secular professionals, government employees, union men. When that innocent-looking shipping container arrives from Iran it will be most convenient and effective to unleash it on the destination port city (NY? Philadelphia?) An attack on dispersed infrastructure targets in the “Red States” won’t produce the desired death toll. The indulgence that Blue Staters display towards those who’d destroy them would be comical if it weren’t so frightening.