Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> 
>> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>> Michael Cash wrote:
>>>> Since there isn't much getting around the fact that I *am* downwind
>>>> of
>>>> those fuckers, I would like to suggest that things proceed
>>>> cautiously and undue use of force be avoided.
>>> 
>>> If undue use of force is to be avoided against countries with WMD
>>> development programs and arsenals upwind of US allies, why do any
>>> other countries with less deserve any less, in the light of US
>>> rhetoric?
>> 
>> ISTM that Mike was very careful to write "undue force". His feelings
>> on due force may be a very different matter.
> 
> I saw what he has to say about nuking North Korea along with any
> innocent starving North Koreans or thousands of captive Japanese and
> their descendants. It is too bad it is only dependent upon its
> possible effect on him. There are nations downwind of Afghanistan,
> Iraq, and nearly any other nation the US has fought or talked tough
> to. 

Good thing we didn't use nukes there, then.

> If the US or any other country would like to be serious about
> liberating nations, stopping terrorism, toppling dictatorships,
> preventing development of WMD, or preventing proliferation of nuclear
> arms, they should go for it instead of standing by while Israel,
> India, Pakistan, North Korea or others do it.

What's wrong with Israel's having nuclear weapons?

-- 
Kevin Gowen