| a nuclear weapon is a terror weapon. it is used not only to blow up the structures and people in a region, but to destroy the very ground and air, and radiologically erase it from the map. a nuclear bomb does not care who lives in an area, it kills them all, much like an enormous suicide bomb. civilian, military, women, children, animals, plants, they all die. and the area is poisonous for hundreds of years afterwards as the jetstream carries fallout around the globe, poisoning millions of civilians.
how can one claim that a nuclear weapon is not a terrorist weapon? what legitimate military application does it have, other than deterring the use of other supremely evil weapons? hiroshima and nagasaki were perhaps the worst terrorist bombings in the history of mankind. japan had been trying to surrender for months beforehand. it was little more than retribution and senseless destruction of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
if such a bomb went off in a major US city would you call it terrorist or military in 2004?
yet bush is spending as much money on nuclear weapon development as at the height of the cold war, in inflation adjusted dollars. disgusting. bush is the greatest terrorist.
the proper application of *modern* weaponry in a modern war is at a precise target, not merely the wanton destruction of foreign civilization. commandos and smart bombs win a war. obliteration is not victory. |