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| We'd destroy every terrorist including the towns where they sleep! |
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| We'd cower and ask for the terms of our surrender. |
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| We'd spend the next 6 months blaming the President. |
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| We'd keep doing what we're doing in the Middle East. |
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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| FlagWaver wrote: |
NUKE OR BE NUKED!
Ask yourself this question: Can terrorists be deterred from using WMD against American targets?
Mecca would be a rational deterrent to radical Islamists bent on using WMD against American civilians.
If Islamic extremists really love their religious institutions in the way that they claim they do, then pointing an ICBM at Mecca may not be the most irrational thing to do. They may not care if the rest of the world goes up in a nuclear mushroom cloud, but Mecca is not the rest of the world. Would they really risk blowing up New York City if they believed the consequences of such an action would be a 30 kiloton nuclear explosion over the Kaaba stone?
Perhaps only the threat of destroying Mecca would be enough. |
I agree that this is plausible and very possible the greatest deterent known, but isn't that hitting just too low on the belt? Not all muslims are terrorists even though we're not hearing the protests we should be hearing from them. No, if you destroy, intentionally or unintentionally, Mecca then you've just started the Holy War to end all Holy Wars. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| flagwaver wrote: |
| Perhaps only the threat of destroying Mecca would be enough. |
A more effective deterrent would be threatening to blow up Allah. What you're suggesting here is just soft-headed, not least because for it to be a deterrent, it must first be threatened. Threatening to nuke Mecca under any circumstances is probably not a very good idea.
I don't see why you're all so worried about this anyway - they caught the guy responsible for 9/11 and got rid of all his WMDs. Mission Accomplished.
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
| Yo!Chingo wrote: |
| Perhaps only the threat of destroying Mecca would be enough. |
A more effective deterrent would be threatening to blow up Allah. What you're suggesting here is just soft-headed, not least because for it to be a deterrent, it must first be threatened. Threatening to nuke Mecca under any circumstances is probably not a very good idea.
I don't see why you're all so worried about this anyway - they caught the guy responsible for 9/11 and got rid of all his WMDs. Mission Accomplished. |
In case you didn't notice, I DIDN'T originally propose it and as I wrote later on in the paragraph, IT'S A BAD IDEA. BTW if you're going to quote someone make sure it's actually THEIR QUOTE  |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Before detonating a nuclear device over US soil, they (terrorists) might want to check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
to see what sort of response the US would have for them. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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I always though it would just create a race of superheros who would then go and kick Osama's butt  |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Yo!Chingo wrote: |
| In case you didn't notice, I DIDN'T originally propose it and as I wrote later on in the paragraph, IT'S A BAD IDEA. BTW if you're going to quote someone make sure it's actually THEIR QUOTE |
You're right! I was meaning to quote flagwaver. I'll edit it now. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: |
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I don't think two actual countries would really exchange nukes. Only a desperate one, perhaps, like North Korea, but they'd be committing suicide and I don't think any nation on Earth has ever done such a suicidal "last act" of such magnitude... so chances are slim at best. However, they'd definitely be up for selling one... which brings me to...
We're way more likely to see a terrorist org use WMDs. This is what the USA is so antsy about... I think if this were to happen, there wouldn't be a huge WWIII scenario between powerful nations. WWIII would be the rich, powerful nations banding together and wiping the miserable poor nations (like NK and Iran) off the face of the Earth. You'd also likely see a very rigid police-like state form in the rich countries, less political correctness regarding Muslims, and more of a militaristic UN. Bush's little war on terror would probably be won quickly, but it'd be a very strange world... one getting more towards a "world government" scenario.
Oddly enough, I think an event like that would further unite the powerful nations of the world, and pretty much leave the poor regions either in the dust or in the hands of even more "infidels." |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Dirty bomb detonated by named or unnamed terrorist group in a U.S. city?
The two world capitals that had better be praying hardest such a thing never happens are... Pyongyang and Seoul. In that order.
"In the absence of war in Korea, the next big event will be a dirty bomb, or a full-blown terrorist nuclear strike, in an American city. After that, if there has not already been a war in Korea, there will be". The only thing that might prevent this would be North Korea's collapse and the pulverisation of Al Qaeda. (Likely?)
I've always felt Iraq to be almost a sideshow compared to the kimchi that we may live to see hit the fan in this small neighbhourhood one sad day. Whatever carnage the Middle East may see will, I expect, be dwarfed by the spectacle here. |
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Beej wrote: |
| It would go something like this. US president addresses the world in a televised speech. He says something along the lines of " as a world community, we must ask ourselves what we will really miss about Islam. |
LMAO!!! You b**tard, I just spilled my coffee because of you.
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| You can take this to the bank. |
Indeed. |
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