Posted by
Tom "Papa" Bryant on Monday, October 16, 2006 10:21:11 AM
Over on columnist Vox Day's blog, he continues with his "why its inevitable that the Axis-of-Evil will get the bomb" arguement with the blog post: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2006/10/mailvox-no-nukes-revisited.html
Yes, because when faced with a choice between doing the
historically impossible - preventing foreign technological
advancement - and the historically difficult but doable -
protecting a national border - obviously it makes sense
to direct one's resources towards performing the
impossible. ES' attempted criticism here merely highlights
the complete logical disconnect between the Bush
administration's rhetoric and its actions.
Seriously, how can you possibly argue that the USA must
attack both North Korea and Iran in order to prevent them
from sneaking nuclear weapons across our unguarded
borders? And even if one was so gifted with the tongues
of men and angels that one could make that case
successfully, how could one possibly argue
for attacking Iran first?
To which Josh makes the reply:
Given the absurdly low yield of the North Korean nukes
(the test nuke was 5-15K), we would likely lose more
Americans in a conventional war with North Korea than
if they nuked us. Of course, I'm using rational thought
and logic, which are foreign to the neo-cons and their
religious right bent-over submissives.
Josh | Homepage | 10.16.06 - 6:43 am | #
Let this Religious Right non-bent-over, non-submissive try REAL rational thought and logic...
Why the small yield explosion? - Suitcase bomb.
Which as we all know can be easily shared with Muslim terrorists - who are already sneaking in over our borders.
We've already had Iranian President Ahmadinejad ask Bush to convert - per Muslim theological requirements before destroying an enemy.
And we've had two calls by different Muslim clerics that "the 'judgement' of Allah will come before Ramadan was finished, so Muslims had better leave the U.S. - NOW!"
Conclusion (by this evangelical Christian) - we will be attacked very soon (maybe in as little as a month) and it will be nuclear. North Korea's test was to re-assure the Iranians that the bombs would work.
Read my post "The Art of Wars and Rumors of Wars". This is not Pakistan or India, which has dyadic lower classes and a Western-oriented ruling class. North Korea and Iran are dyadic top to bottom. Dyadic social norms tell us they get the bomb, they use the bomb.
As repugnant as this sounds, if we do not attack now, we lose.