From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 17 2002 - 13:30:40 MDT
At 03:11 PM 8/16/02 -0700, Lee wrote of Brian Williams' far-fetched scenario:
>Well, Brian, for me that means that the six capitals get
>H-bombed in return, (or whichever cities the Americans
>believe the enemy leaders to be in).
That makes no sense. Hussein offs a few million Americans, so in
retaliation you kill a few million locked in his overgrown prison?
As with any major crime, we would want to punish the guilty,
protect other innocents, and prevent recurrance. Even if you
were to fling nukes, they shouldn't be aimed at random civilians
but at well-chosen military targets.
If governments were behind this, the best tactic would be to
destroy said governments and replace them.
See Germany, Japan, Italy. If it's militant Islam,
the best tactic would be to imprison the supportive
mullah, bankrupt the bankrollers, and dissassemble the
social infrastructure. See Turkey.
Fundamentally you're talking memetic warfare. The
enemy is concepts, not people. You don't fight
disease by killing victims.
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