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accelafine wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 4:43 am Yet it's ok for the US, the biggest and most dangerous whackjob on the planet, to have the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons.

What makes you think it is not ok? Feelings?

Walker wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 11:07 am

accelafine wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 4:43 am Yet it's ok for the US, the biggest and most dangerous whackjob on the planet, to have the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons.

What makes you think it is not ok? Feelings?

What makes you think it's not OK for Iran to have nuclear weapons? Feelings?

mutually assured destruction only works if one doesn't want to be destroyed

suicide bombers with nukes are something no one wants

-Imp

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 6:40 pm mutually assured destruction only works if one doesn't want to be destroyed

suicide bombers with nukes are something no one wants

-Imp

And no one wants a country to have nuclear weapons so that it can bully countries that don't.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 6:40 pm mutually assured destruction only works if one doesn't want to be destroyed

suicide bombers with nukes are something no one wants

-Imp

That's the thing. Good point.

Sting wrote a famous song called "Russians," about the arms race of the Cold War period. And it ended with the refrain, "I hope the Russians love their children, too." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

That might have worked for the Russians. But when you're dealing with a completely different psychology -- one that prizes the opportunity of marching their children into mine fields, or promises 72 virgins to those who self-immolate, that refrain rings hollow.

Islamists would be gleeful to immolate their entire populations in nuclear holocaust, if it could be interpreted by their bloodthirsty deity as "martyrdom." You can't bargain with such people, can't threaten them, can't make them fear for their lives or their families. They're past all that.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 6:27 pm

Fletch has witnessed the same tale.
Maybe you’ll listen to Fletch.

He begins:

Not A War of Choice
https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... hoice.html

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrat-media complex, the war with Iran is not a war of choice in any practical sense. If anything, the current operations represent the end of the great pretending, since Iran has long been at war with us, keeping their attacks just low enough in intensity or with just enough plausible deniability to allow for the continuance of that pretending.

Good line. The end of the great pretending.

That shooter chasing rabbits through the hotel hallway was a big pretender.