ask a righty: If we can be blackmailed by a country with ONE nuke, why do we need 10,000?

[yurbud]

When they were selling the Iraq War and now the Iran War, they make it sound like if either country could put together one nuke, they could blackmail us. Then how come we got 10,000? Wouldn't one per country be enough to blackmail them if they were doing something we didn't like?

[Deja Q]

1. In case 9,999 of them fail?

:hide:

[yurbud]

2. oh yeah. like bad firecrackers.

[Myrina]

3. I think its a phallic thing ...

... our military has more than their military (since actual size doesn't seem to matter).

:shrug:

Or maybe it has something to do with how much profit our military industrial companies make selling technology and equipment to countries like that ... you know, before we declare them "terraist regimes" ? :eyes:

[shenmue]

4. C'mon...

that'll make their brains pop...

:crazy:

[The Stranger]

5. IRAN DOES NOT HAVE NUKES. NOT ONE, NOT 10,000, NOT ANY.

It is at least 5 years away, according to intelligence sources.

[yurbud]

6. even when they do, they will not be a threat to us. it will merely limit our military options

to act against them.

[Parche]

7. Iran away

Exactly, and if they ever had one and used one.......dont you think that the major powers in the
world would totally annihilate them???


Scare tactics are wrong.....

"Is this the day? Is this the beginning of the end? There is no time to wonder, no time to ask, 'Why is it happening, why is it finally happening?' There is time only for fear, for the piercing pain of panic. Do we pray? Or do we merely run now, and pray later? Will there be a later? Or is this the day?"










"Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque. It will have been at least a lesson—a lesson at last to be learned."

[yurbud]

8. the scare only works if people have seen a lot of action movies where the bad guys exist

to run in front of our guns and be shot.

If Iran or anyone else launched a nuke at us, that is essentially what they would be doing.

Kind of like a purse dog biting a pit bull. He might hurt the pit bull, but when it's all over, the only thing left of the purse dog will be the chanel collar.