Garth Wood wrote:
>
>
> For those who are afraid that nukes are inevitable, nice big fuel-air
> weapons would do almost as much damage, and produce no radiation
> whatsoever. Typical momentary overpressure from the shock wave of a FA is
> 100,000+ atmospheres, more than enough to flatten anything humans are
> capable of building that doesn't have 100 metres of quartzite rock between
> it and harm's way.
He may have bunkers in the mountains, but who knows? Military is at
threatcon delta, the highest level. Smart bombs, cruise missles, and B-1
bombers are probably already prepped for service.
>
> I've spent most of my adult life watching my liberal, humane ideals slowly
> get trampled into the dust by organizations and individuals I used to (at
> least cautiously) support. Now, at 43 years of age, I realize that our
> fathers, and their fathers, were closer to the mark: sometimes you have no
> options other than the utter destruction of your enemies.
>
Yes, I feel the same way.
> And to my Canadian brothers and sisters who are afraid that this "might"
> draw us in -- it *will* draw us in, and it should. We are signatories to
> Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that "An attack
> against one is an attack against all."
NATO is currently considering authorization for the use of force under
Article 5. I bet that it is approved.
> I'm sorry. My liberal instincts want to fudge, to hedge, to find "a more
> humane way." I'm afraid that another set of instincts have finally kicked
> in, and they're screaming an entirely different message. My wife and many
> of my friends work in office towers. All I could imagine yesterday was my
> wife trapped in the same situation, phoning me one last time to tell me
> that she loved me, to ask for my forgiveness for what she was about to do,
> and then to jump to her death, because the alternative way of dying was too
> much for her to bear.
>
Yeah, that blows me away. People jumping from the building. Men and
women jumpng hand in hand to thier death. People waiting to find loved
ones in the rubble. There was a woman with binocular's at the Pentagon
waiting since last night for her husband to come out of the building.
That's just too much for me to think about...
--
"I have a dragon and I'm not afraid to use it!"
Dirk Wright
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