> I listened breifly to the Rush Limbaugh show
> while I was out getting lunch this afternoon,
> and heard a listener who had called in
> advocating his belief that we should "nuke
> 'em." His rationale was that these people, like
> the Japanese in WW2, are willing to die to the
> last man in the fight for their cause. He said
> we need to show them that we're willing to
> take their last man, and that using nuclear
> weapons on them is the only way to do this,
> just like using the atomic bomb on the
> Japanese was the only way to end WW2.
>
> I personally don't agree with this idea. We
> aren't facing a centrally-located enemy like we
> were during WW2. These types of terrorist
> groups seem to be spread out all over the
> world. It seems to me that it would be
> impossible to use doomsday weaponry to
> strike at these orgnanizations without also
> doing irreparable collateral damage to
> ourselves and other innocents in the process.
> Your thoughts?


My mind doesn't even start to consider whether or not I agree: This idea is dismissed per reflex. I will not hesitate to label it stupid.


>
> Gri"now, if we could Duke Nuk'em...that'd be
> different"shny


jul"what do you say we start using video and computer games to solve political conflicts? A game of Wolfenstein for world domination?"ian