Quote Originally Posted by Torog
There's alot of differences between our goverment and it's systems of balances and checks,as opposed to those of brutal dictators who have no checks or balances..we use nukes to preserve,protect and defend the entire Free World,not just ourselves..whereas dictators only have war and conquest..on their minds..you may as well give a nuke to an insane person..it's about the same difference.
I don't see how nukes in the hands of the American military is a much better idea than nukes in the hands of an insane person. There have been numerous times in history where the world has become dangerously close to nuclear war, sometimes just by complete accident. Nukes can't preserve or protect people. They can only kill.

I would like to see this whole mess with NK end peacefully,there are many folks there suffering terribly and they need the help of the Free World. I wish the same for Iran,folks are suffering there too and many want democracy..but in the case of both countries,the leadership borders on the insane. Kim il Jung,wants to take over South Korea and destroy Japan and the Iranian mullahs,want to destroy both Israel,America and probably Britain,as well as conquer Iraq.

Have a good one ...
Peace is the only real solution. A military solution is bound to fail just as spectacularly as Iraq or Afghanistan.

America has failed miserably at bringing "democracy" to the countries it has invaded. One only has to look at the American-backed Islamic theocracy in Afghanistan which is denying people basic freedoms like the freedom of assembly and the freedom of religion. Or the Taliban that a previous American invasion put into power. Or the brutal authoritarian dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile that was established by a CIA coup against the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Or the US government's funding of the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua who were trained to attack civilian targets like hospitals and schools.

I've said it before and I've said it again. As long as our leaders are unwilling to withdraw support from brutal dictatorial regimes like Saudi Arabia, Haiti and Uzbekistan, or even to verbally denounce the complete lack of freedom in those places, it is clear that they have absolutely no problem with dictatorial governments.