Comments on: Nuke’em before they nuke you http://paleck.com/blog/2006/11/08/nukeem-before-they-nuke-you/ Everything you never cared about, and I was bored enough to write Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:39:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Paleck http://paleck.com/blog/2006/11/08/nukeem-before-they-nuke-you/#comment-23 Paleck Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:55:52 +0000 http://www.paleck.com/blog/?p=29#comment-23 I'm not trying to suggest that the US would be afraid to go into a fight. I find it more likely that the other countries/terrorists/parties will view this as a another example that the we are reluctant and unwilling to commit fully to protecting ourselves. It also gives them the impresssion that because we are "unsure of ourselves" that we will be unwilling to go to the lengths needed to follow through on any action if they play their cards correctly to the media and by inference the people. Also the same range of thinking that gives off the impression that we will not fully commit ourselves gives rise to the thought that we are no longer a super power, but nothing more than a bully that runs away when he gets his nose bloodied. I’m not trying to suggest that the US would be afraid to go into a fight. I find it more likely that the other countries/terrorists/parties will view this as a another example that the we are reluctant and unwilling to commit fully to protecting ourselves. It also gives them the impresssion that because we are “unsure of ourselves” that we will be unwilling to go to the lengths needed to follow through on any action if they play their cards correctly to the media and by inference the people. Also the same range of thinking that gives off the impression that we will not fully commit ourselves gives rise to the thought that we are no longer a super power, but nothing more than a bully that runs away when he gets his nose bloodied.

]]> By: Peridyd http://paleck.com/blog/2006/11/08/nukeem-before-they-nuke-you/#comment-22 Peridyd Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:43:54 +0000 http://www.paleck.com/blog/?p=29#comment-22 Paleck, I understand and appreciate what you're saying, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a nation who, over the last 200 years, had been in more wars than the United States. How many military/police actions that involve force have we been involved in, just since Vietnam? Again, I agree that it's problematic to leave Iraq now that our invasion's basically ruined its entire social infrastructure, but to suggest that the United States (the world's only superpower), a nation that never hesitates to use force, is somehow suddenly afraid to fight flies in the face of my lived experience as a citizen of this country. Were that it was true. Peridyd Paleck,

I understand and appreciate what you’re saying, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a nation who, over the last 200 years, had been in more wars than the United States. How many military/police actions that involve force have we been involved in, just since Vietnam?

Again, I agree that it’s problematic to leave Iraq now that our invasion’s basically ruined its entire social infrastructure, but to suggest that the United States (the world’s only superpower), a nation that never hesitates to use force, is somehow suddenly afraid to fight flies in the face of my lived experience as a citizen of this country.

Were that it was true.

Peridyd

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