Comments on: On Nuking Nonnuclear States

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:38:07 +0000

It’s American global hegemony.

Or I should be specific and say the hegemony of an elite class.

Interesting that Mexico has mounted a series of “dirty bomb” (illegal aliens) on the populace of the Republic, but nothing has been done to seal the borders.

But you cannot have hegemony unless you eliminate the nation state.

Either with nukes.

Or by invasion.

By: haym

haym — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:37:12 +0000

Israel is a prime example of vague doctrine. They don’t even admit to having nukes. No one knows what their doctrine is, but I can guarantee that should their nation be threatened with destruction or wholesale slaughter, there would be a ring of nuclear destruction around Israel.

By: haym

haym — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:34:58 +0000

Nuclear doctrine is very complicated and part of the deterrence is based on keeping potential enemies uncertain as to how we would react to a variety of possible attacks. By removing some of that uncertainty Obama has weakened us. Reagan was not speaking doctrine, he was being a political leader.

The innocents killed in Japan were no different than the innocents killed in the massive bombing of Germany by the allies. I cannot see any moral superiority in killing a hundred thousand by conventional means rather than one atomic bomb. [Agreed. Who said the one mass killing was better than the other? Not me. Wrong inference.]

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:35:22 +0000

Ilana – I just e-mailed you some photos contrasting modern day Hiroshima and modern day Detroit. Feel free to post them. Perhaps we can get someone to nuke us and force us to give up on our dreams of Global Empire …. Myron

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:08:03 +0000

I don’t consider myself a “neocon”, whatever that is, but I do have an opinion about nukes. We should never let anyone think we would hesitate to use them if we need them. No, I don’t think we should nuke someone for a cyber attack but if we start picking and choosing to the world one of them might try us out just to see where we draw the line. To unilaterally state that we wouldn’t use nukes for any reason is a mistake as it leads the world to think we are timid. [You misrepresent BO’s position. Bad form.] They didn’t like us because we were a bunch of trigger happy cowboys. Good. That’s just what they need to think. Of course there’s not much danger of anybody thinking Obama is one. Cowboys don’t go around dropping their pants and bending over for dictators.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:32:23 +0000

The neocon crowd was angry at Reagan in his second term for trying to reduce nukes with Gorby. They also consider his withdrawing our troops from Lebanon (a sensible correction to the idiotic idea of sending them there in the first place) to be a sin comparable to Adam and the apple.