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BigBlackEquus

France says it is ready to use nukes on any terrorist state that would attack them.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182385,00.html

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

People would think twice about attacking them...

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

You're assuming that these type of people actually think!

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

France making nuclear threats, Japan trying to change it's constitution to allow an army, Canada wanting to build it's military because of the North, the Danes planting flags in islands to support a claim, China totally changing it's army and threaten a lot of people (not just Taiwan)...
Anyone else see a resemblance (small so far, but it's still there) to Pre-1914 nationalism?

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I'd say business as usual in the world of global politics.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

Then I'd say that the gov't is acting stupidly and recklessly. Anyone got the French Prez's number? I'll call him and tell him he is being a dufus.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

America has said as much.

AbbeFaria · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: Gangnam

I'd love it if France dropped the bomb on one of them. For one the hippies would have to shut up with their complaining that "The US is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons" as there proof that we're evil.

But also, the mid-east needs a good smack upside the head. I was having a great discussion the other day with a Brit and we were in total agreement that it's only going to take one big successful attack (the kind that kills hundreds or thousands of people) in Europe before the whole thing blows sky high. Muslims are swarming the borders there and while the majority of them are peaceful enough, it only takes one rotten apple to spoil the bunch. They bomb the Chunnel or the Eifel Tower or get off a gas attack in the London underground similar to Japan's only a lot more deadly, and their won't just be war in the middle east, they'll be dragging muslims out of their homes and killing them in the streets. People there, whether they admit it or not, are scared. It doesn't take much for that fear to mobilize. Threatening nuclear retaliation for a non-nuclear attack is ample proof of that. While it could be a bluff, it's a sign of how desperate they're feeling. Soon enough they'll get tired of being afraid and decide to take action. Legal or not won't matter much after their child was blown up on his or her way to school.

And God forbid terrorists get a nuke off in the States. As a buddy of mine said, the world is not prepared for the kind of hell the US could unleash if the country were fully committed. Right now we're just half-a$$ing it. Lets see if Al Quida calls their bluff.

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