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Yes -- and he was right. But he didn't say (because history had already proven otherwise -- Hiroshima & Nagasaki) that one or two nuclear explosions would have that result. Were full scale nuclear war to break out I too would rather die sooner than later. But I don't imagine the citizens of Tokyo or other parts of Japan felt like that -- and neither would the rest of the U.S. if a single nuclear weapon went off in a single city.
MAD is not a strategy that applies to whatever kind of "war" is going on now.
Immediately after 911 everyone was saying, "But what should 'we' do about it?" I think the question can be reversed. What _should_ the people of the Philippines, of Palestine and Iraq, of latin america, of...... _do_ about it? It being, of course, the irresistible power of the U.S.
That's a serious question, not rhetorical. I try to put myself in the place of someone living in Gaza or Sudan or Pakistan or Indonesia. I can't. I just can't imagine an answer for that person's question of "What should we do?"
Carrol