Saturday, January 14, 2006

Wheel of Tactical Nuclear Weapons



The puzzle:

"Ira_, armed with a _uclear weapo_, poses a grave threat to the security of the world," Bush said.

Contestant: Pat, I would guess a "Q?"

Pat: Oh, sorry, there's no Q. Condi, it's your spin.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

We have every right to attack Iran if they are going to become a threat.

Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:42:00 PM
Rousing Rabble said...

Do we have every right to attack Russia? I mean they HAVE nuclear weapons, and they're not our friends. How about China?

Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:24:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Of course we would, if they were a threat, if their president was making crazy talk and disobeying treaties.

Monday, January 16, 2006 10:06:00 AM
Rousing Rabble said...

First off..... if you're a student of history, you KNOW that we fought proxy wars in Korea and Viet Nam precisely BECAUSE we couldn't afford to attack China or the USSR (who respectively propped up the "communist" regimes we fought). The belief in Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is what kept all parties in line.

Today, we're the only so-called "superpower" left standing (although I'd argue that China is about ready to take a piece of that stage as well) so we get to dictate the rules to everyone else. One problem - WE DON'T. We can flout protocols and rules when we see fit - but we do so at great peril. We can invade sovereign nations and impose our will on them, but our reasoning is becoming increasingly specious to a great swath of the world's population. Iraq wasn't a DIRECT threat to us, but we squashed Hussein. Now we're spending my kids' and your kids' prosperity (and over 2,100 unrecoverable American lives) on establishing a democracy that will UNDOUBTABLY be aligned with Iran. Now we threaten to squash Iran with a military that is having trouble tamping down brush fires in Afghanistan and an insurgency in Iraq, a CIA that is killing innocent people based on "bad" intelligence, and we are being misled by an administration that NEVER admits to making any mistakes, and which calls all dissent treasonous.

By the way, if you REALLY want to be worried about something, worry about the hundreds of nuclear weapons that REMAIN unaccounted for after teh breakup of the old USSR..... and worry even more about the FACT that the McLiar/Vader administration has ignored the 9/11 Commission's finding that our ports of entry are SEVERELY underprotected.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:13:00 AM

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