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Originally Posted by raymr
You didn't answer mine, or maybe you did implicitly. I'll presume your answers were YES, YES, and WHY NOT INDEED.
In that case, your vision of what needs to be done may become more of a reality, should my prediction of an Iran war come to pass. Decisions will be based on the limited ground troops available, if it happens in the near future. Its still hard to fathom at this point.
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Fair enough. Now I understand. When I refer to the 'law of the jungle', it is to demonstrate that we must position ourselves as bigger, meaner, hungrier predators than they are. Targeting civilians need not be the case. There are other ways to do it. We are just not willing to go there.....yet.
Should we temporarily suspend our notions of decency and human sanctity to deal with them at their level?
If we wish to survive where other great societies failed, then yes, we'd better do what it takes.
I'm not convinced that dropping a nuke is necessary yet. Though we'd be well advised to fight fire with fire in the event that a despotic regime begins to gain nukes regardless of the ability to deliver.