This guy won't be voting for Bush
But only because he is a Brazilian:
The actual damage of a terrorist attack has less to do with its dimensions than with the when and where. A single, tiny blood clot can kill a 200 pound guy. On the other hand, though some people consider the possible nuking of a Western city a nasty thing that should cause no overreaction, the truth is that a nuke cannot logically be answered by anything less than at least two nukes. How long would any US president remain in the White House if, after the nuking of, say, LA, he went to national TV to say: we’ll find the culprits, capture them, send them to the Hague and you can all be sure they’ll spend the next ten years behind bars? In short: either in the US or elsewhere, even in Europe, if the governments and elites do not act, the people will eventually do. There are two candidates in the US presidential election. One gets it, the other doesn’t. I won’t be voting for Bush, but that’s only because I’m not American.I agree completely. Read his entire post
posted by Dave Justus | 10/21/2004 07:31:00 AM
3 Comments:
Oh good Lord. Stop pretending you're living through a Tom Clancy novel. Nobody's going to nuke a city. At best, somebody might be able to sneak in some tiny bomb that levels a city block and emits a small radiation cloud. And that's bad, but it's not the same as what you guys are worried about.
But even if that did happen, any president in his right mind would exploit the opportunity to be a hero. Even if it was Ralph fricking Nader, we'd be all over anybody who did that. Massive disasters are a political gold mine.
Although, I will admit that one of our candidates already knows that...
Wow! I thought Tom Clancy *did* write a couple of novels that had pilots flying fuel laden airplanes into buildings. But, you know, you're right. We don't live in a Tom Clancy novel. In his novels, only make-believe people die.
I am not as confident as you are that a city will not be nuked. Biological warfare is also a frightening possibility.
Now, when I say a city might be nuked, obviously it is very unlikely that it will be from one of the larger sized nuclear weapons, but even a small 'suitcase' nuke will destroy considerably more than a city block.
I think that if we are not fully aggressive against Al-Qaeda and state sponsors of terror it is a risk that becomes a mere certainty over time.
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