[QUOTE=ermitonto]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.[QUOTE]

Come on ermitono, you got to be kidding. Right?? There's a huge difference between the U.S. (or Russia, or even China) having nukes and someone like Kim Jong Il or some fundamentalist Muslim leader having them. The difference is that our leaders (even that idiot Bush) know the consequences of using nukes and, more importantly, care about the consequences. This keeps them from using the nukes or at least doing everything they can to prevent their use. Give those nukes to someone who it nuts, has nothing to lose, and feels cornered (like Kim Jong Il), or to someone who thinks to die in the name of Allah is glorious, and they're far more likely to use them.

Think about it, how does Kim Jong Il want to go down in history. As one of the worst leaders ever? The guy who kept his country starving, stuck in the 50's, and who aliented the rest of the world? Or, the guy who taught big bad U.S.A a lesson and nuked one of their cities? I'm hoping for the former but the latter wouldn't suprise me much either.
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