When the US would use a Nuke...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8604217....
"[Obama] would rule out a nuclear response to attacks on the US involving biological, chemical or conventional weapons."
Why would you want to do that? Strikes me that biological or chemical weapons could kill more people than a single, small, fission weapon obtained by a terror group.
"[Obama] would rule out a nuclear response to attacks on the US involving biological, chemical or conventional weapons."
Why would you want to do that? Strikes me that biological or chemical weapons could kill more people than a single, small, fission weapon obtained by a terror group.
Lefty Two Drams said:
tangent police said:
Academic as Obama is in a similar order of "on the way out" as Winky.
Is he really that unpopular is the US?bob1179 said:
Lefty Two Drams said:
tangent police said:
Academic as Obama is in a similar order of "on the way out" as Winky.
Is he really that unpopular is the US?Oh dear, not popular then.
Genius. This creates an incentive to focus on developing bio and chemical weapons instead, which are easier to produce, and more difficult to detect and monitor.
If the object of the excersise is to raise the taboo on using nuclear weapons, it just makes them more enticing for the jihadis
Obama really is one useless naïve bellend. He is starting to make Jimmy Carter look good, which I thought was pretty much impossible.
If the object of the excersise is to raise the taboo on using nuclear weapons, it just makes them more enticing for the jihadis
Obama really is one useless naïve bellend. He is starting to make Jimmy Carter look good, which I thought was pretty much impossible.
bob1179 said:
Lefty Two Drams said:
tangent police said:
Academic as Obama is in a similar order of "on the way out" as Winky.
Is he really that unpopular is the US?
There are appropriate circumstances for the deployment of nukes...
Here's one...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Here's one...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Unless this President and the Democratically controlled Congress take steps to radically shift their world view (or maybe even start listening to the American people - which would be a radical change), first the Congress and then (in 2012) the Presidency will see a shift that will make the "Reagan Revolution" look mild.
Obama, via this protocol change (and the announcing of it) has just telegraphed to every radical in the world that he (Obama) has no spine and that there are limits to his reciprocity.
Quite honestly, Obama has done more in a single year to galavanize the American people than the last few Presidents (except perhaps GWB immediately post 9-11). Pity for him that the galvanization is to his detriment.
This is not entirely unexpected, though.
(Oh, and look for Hillary to resign within the next year and a half or whenever Obama's approval rate drops below 30%)
tinman0 said:
Countdown said:
I like him 
Would you rather have him or GWB ?
GWB every time.Would you rather have him or GWB ?
Barry can't even decide on a cabinet. Still hasn't got it done after being in power a year.
Countdown said:
I'm surprised. I always considered GWB as a tongue-tied bumbling fool who only got elected through daddy's contacts and was generally an embarassment to the US.
No, that's just how Bush was perceived by certain people based on biased/sound bite reporting and certain segments of the world's population's perception that anybody with a remotely southern US accent is an idiot. Countdown said:
You now have an eloquent internationally respected figure who has (IMO) really improved the US's image and standing in the global community.
The problem is, he wasn't elected to be the world's saviour (and I disagree with the "internationally respected" bit). It's a bit like Blair - world loved him and couldn't see what the Brits were b
hin' about. Countdown said:
He's won the Nobel Peace Prize
That one was a bit of an "own goal" so doesn't need a response. Countdown said:
as well as increasing the availability of healthcare for US citizens.
Obama has shot himself in the foot with this This much touted law (which is under legal assault by, at last count, 18 States) is a "tax you now" and "get benefits in a few years" boondoggle. It will bring about the demise of the Presidency even faster when "we can't get our free Obama-Care that he promised us..." hits critical mass with the unwashed.Countdown said:
tinman0 said:
Countdown said:
I like him
Would you rather have him or GWB ?
GWB every time.Would you rather have him or GWB ?
Barry can't even decide on a cabinet. Still hasn't got it done after being in power a year.
GWB demonstrated his straight talking when it came to Bin Laden - "hand him over, or we invade". He was a man of his words. Negotiated to a point and carried through his threat.
And please, don't quote the Nobel thing. He wasn't in office when he got nominated. He was merely President Elect. And the fact that he accepted it for doing nothing says a lot about Barry. If Barry had simply have said "I cannot accept this prize as I would like to be judged at the end of my Presidency" then he would have won so much support and respect in the US it would be unreal. Because that's what is expected of a President.
But to stand on a stage, make a speech, and receive an award for doing nothing, is an insult.
It is a demonstration of ego and self gratification.
Barry is also one of the most ungrateful Presidents the US has seen in previous years. A standard practice of any serving President was never to criticize the guy before once you were in power. You never ever stuck it to your predecessors.
And that is something Barry has failed to do. He has made political capital out of the previous President, and that is quite undignified for the office of President.
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