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- From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Halfwits.
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:17:42 GMT
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- In article <1e1r07INNid8@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> yarvin@cs.yale.edu
- (Norman Yarvin) writes:
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- >Economic power? What an oxymoron that is. There are not two different
- >forms of power in this world. There is only one. How long do you think the
- >Japanese "economic power" would last without oil? How long do you think the
- >supertankers that bring oil to Japan would last in the presence of our
- >nuclear submarines and Walleye air-to-ground missiles?
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- You can't use air-to-ground missiles against seaborne targets. The Weapons
- Police would be on you in a flash.
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- >A nuclear terrorist might actually, for once, force the western world to
- >respond to terror with terror. A measure that we have generally frowned
- >upon, but which is really quite appropriate. During the Gulf war, the
- >Israelis let it be known that if Iraq used chemical weapons against Israel,
- >it would "invite the return of Baghdad to the status of rubble". Such
- >methods of inducement work quite well.
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- I say that in the event of nuclear terrorism, we nuke Mecca -- preferably
- during the Hajj. Now *that* would send a relatively unambiguous message
- to the Islamic world, eh what? A bit extreme, to be sure, but what the
- hell -- we might as well go all the way.
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- Geoff
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