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Old 05-27-2009, 06:05 PM
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I'm afraid we are way too "politically correct" to use a nuke anymore (if we ever were); too much civilian casualties, too much "bad press" in the int'l community, and no President wants to go down as the one who used the bomb. We have them, we threaten with them, but will never use them.
The trick ( as Bogart said in "The Maltese falcon") is to make them think we we use it. Without the threat of death, there is no coercion.

How do we make them think we will use the nukes?
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