Thursday - August 17, 2006
Our Nukes are Worthless Now
The United States has a substantial inventory, so
I would guess from press reports though I have no special knowlege of such
inventory, of nuclear weapons. We used these to good effect in the cold war
with the communists of the world, led by the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. Said Soviets wanted to create a Soviet Republic of America and they
were willing to do just about anything to reach that goal. Anything, that is,
besides assure their own destruction. Our policy and actions were focused on
convincing them that we would annihilate anyone whom we thought would use a
nuclear weapon against us, and that we would strike first.
This had the intended effect of
keeping the Soviets in check.
But
that method no longer works. The Bush administration, as wobbly, socialist, and
weak as his father's administration, knows how to start wars but again like his
father, doesn't understand how to fight them or win them. Yeah, he talked real
big in the beginning, "read my lips, those that aren't for us are against us,"
but he raised taxes anyways. Oops, I mean that he is placating the enemy and
supporters of the enemy, from the Saud family to
Hezbollah.
It's very clear now, that we
are defenseless from attack by our enemies. We are impotent and can only react
to their attacks. They can detonate a nuclear weapon and expect no response of
note. Why? Read on to see why.
We no longer have the will to use nuclear weapons
or fight an offensive and total war. By its nature, a nuclear weapon can only
work against certain targets. Tactical nukes can be used against massed army
divisions in the field. We could drop some on a few divisions that are out in
the desert or some other isolated area with very few civilians nearby. But our
enemies do not mass divisions. They don't have
divisions.
Strategic nuclear weapons
only work against cities. But what city would we use a nuke on now? If Iran
can be named as the guilty party in an attack on us, what city would we bomb
there? Our commander in chief would never bomb another country. In the absence
of a threat of multiple nuke attacks from a specific country, we could never
escalate that quickly to nukes on Teheran. Too many Iranians support us and are
oppressed by their government, we are so often
told.
But even then, why would Iran be
so stupid as to make it clear that their government was responsible for an
attack on us? They can continue to fight wars via proxy. Hezbollah is beholden
to no nation. They are a government, they control land and people, but they
don't allow other nations to identify them as such. Thus, they are nothing. We
have so defined war as to exclude us from fighting a war against the worst
people that need to have war waged against them. We have made it so we can only
fight civilized people.
There is no
military advantage to using nukes or fighting total war against an entity that
we can't "legally" be at war with. Even if we said we were at war with Al Qaeda
or Hezbollah, they don't have legal ownership of cities. Destroying them would
be seen by everyone as hitting the wrong target. We wouldn't be denying
terrain. We wouldn't be destroying military infrastructure. We wouldn't even
be breaking the will of the citizens of the nation we're fighting against
because we're not, supposedly, fighting against a nation. Just as Israel was
prohibited from fighting against Lebanon, the "official" government, so we would
never allow ourselves to fight against our
enemies.
We have lost a big part of
this war by not setting the rules in our favor. We have allowed our enemy to
define himself and the rules we use against him in such a way as to grant him a
firm advantage. The enemy can attack when and where he wants. We can only
react and try to prevent his attacks. We ourselves have put off limits any
assaults on our enemy because we refuse to even identify who our enemy
is.
We can't use nukes anymore. We
don't have the stomach for the environmental damage. We don't have the stomach
to destroy people that we don't call our enemy. We don't have the stomach to be
violent. We don't have the stomach to
win.
Our enemy knows this. Iran knows
that they can create nukes and use them through a proxy -- but even that isn't
necessary -- and we will do nothing but react feebly. They know this, they are
betting on it. They know that they are the real superpower right now. Power
doesn't come from technology or wealth. Power comes from convincing others that
you have power.
Our nation's feeble
and kind-hearted actions in this war against Islamic Jihad has convinced most of
the world that we haven't any power. Islamic Jihad has convinced most of the
world that they do.
This better
change, or our children will be studying at madrassas.
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