@lillycoyote The U.S. is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons in battle. What gives us the right to decide who gets to have nuclear weapons and who doesn’t? That is a very good question! To allow the people that used it, created it, and have the most to decide who should have it and who shouldn’t, is like letting the MOB decide who or who shouldn’t pay ”protection money”.
Akmadinajad and Kim Jong-Il may be nut cases, but they are not nut cases who are quite happy in their positions and won’t risk that by launching preemptive nuclear strikes on any of the aforementioned countries, IMHO. I am sure they won’t attack anyone with nukes unprovoked. But when Peter Jennings traveled to N. Korea and asked him about if his country has nukes, and if so would they give them up for favor in the West. He said he wouldn’t, that as long as he has even a few, Uncle Sam won’t have the spine to attack if it meant S. Korea, Taiwan, or Japan will pay a heavy price for it.
Had Gaddafi had a crystal ball to see the ”frienemies” he gave his nukes to would repay the favor by injecting themselves in a civil war on the side of those trying to topple the government.
I am more worried about the nut cases in my own country and government who the view the rapture, the end of days, the end of the world as positive thing, as something to look forward to. I won’t dignify that right now, to keep the thread on the rails, but, I will address that later.
@Yanaba The U.S. didn’t go into Libya until Gadhafi had already threatened genocide, started attacking people, and rampaged around in there for a while, iirc. They did it to prevent an imminent genocide. You think that was the criteria for Uncle Sam injecting himself into the mix? Excuse me a moment…. BAHAHAHAHA BAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHA…… OK I am done. If THAT were the criteria they would have been in the Darfur region of the Congo years ago. There was way more wholesale slaughter and rapes going on, and it was not against an armed insurgency but defenseless refugees. To say the US felt compelled to go in there to save lives is almost an insult. It was oil, influence and to give their masters in Israel more clout in the area.