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Dino this has nothing to do with you. Esus insulted me because I feel that in order to bring an end to this forsaken war we should nuke the terrorist which I think we should. Heck it brought an end to WWII.
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Well when you're being stupid in public it has everything to do with me, it's only when you choose to do it in private that I've no right to involve myself in it.
FYI, the nuke did not end the second world war - contrary to how you yanks would like to believe it, world war 2 ended on D+90, when British and American forces led by the strategies of Montgomery, and a side helping of military thinking on the part of Patton, successfully occupied Germany and defeated it's forces.
And if you knew what you were talking about, then you'd already be aware that nukes are still used. In fact, the majority of US aerial bombs and missiles carry nuclear warheads. It's just that they're all less than 1 megaton devices. The most powerful nukes that the US use today are around 6-10 megatons. These may sound puny in comparison to the 20-100 megaton devices of the cold war, but actually the smaller bombs are much more efficient - big nukes just eject the majority of their explosive force into space, however if you lay down a carpet of little bombs, you keep almost all the explosive power on the surface.
These types of nukes were used extensively throughout the bombing of taliban HQ in Afgahnistan. But for all of the impressive arsenal of the USA, they're but a limp, impotent penis in the face of modern day terrorism. Terrorists don't fight using conventional warfare, they're totally different, they fight war on a level that the military isn't suited to dealing with - you can't just "nuke them all" because they're not all in one place. The USA attempted nuking their HQs and they never got Osama, Al Quaieda is still very much alive, and attacks are ongoing. This is an enemy that you cannot defeat using standard military tactics and know-how. It's the kind of enemy that requires special agents, undercover ops, intelligence, surveillance, and special forces.
So it is on that basis that I declare Esus' objection to your opinion to be very valid.