Why are you so damn cynical? Is this what lefties have to look forward to in their old age?
The US is no longer the greatest threat to use nukes. Our conventional forces are mighty enough to defeat any possible enemy. Why nuke somebody when you can do the job with ordinary bombs dropped by Stealth bombers at 30,000 feet? Nukes are bad for PR.
Right now I'm more worried about India and Pakistan mixing it up. That strikes me as a much greater threat.
Brett
>> Brad De Long wrote:
>>
>> > >This thread is a bit weird. Its always been my view that nukes
should be
>> > >eliminated, not spread around.
>> > >
>> >You're tellng me...
>>
>> Who's going to eliminate them?
>
>Yes. The only weird thing about the thread would be any consideration
>of the topic without seeing that the dominant issue (to which all others
>are subordinated) is the possession of nuclear weapons by the only
>state ever to use them, and the state which, on the grounds of
>both capacity and willingness is the most serious threat to world
>peace and safety at the present time.
>
>An abstract discussion of the elimination of nuclear weapons would
>be rather more than weird -- it would exist in never-never land.
>
>Carrol