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by Sean Hayden » Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:42 pm
Forty Two wrote:eRvin wrote:His stupidity is a danger...
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What's the answer to the question?
Are they illegal? Where? Many countries have them.
Hillary Clinton supports the development of tactical, battlefield nuclear weapons. If it's improper and "stupid" ask why such weapons cannot be used, then what level of stupidity is it to support development of weapons that cannot be used?
Isn't the answer to the question: they can, in fact, be used, in some circumstances? There are circumstances in US policy, British policy, French policy, Indian policy, Russian policy, etc., in which the use of nuclear weapons is called for.
This is one of those media circus events where we have double-hearsay -- "someone told me that Trump asked him such-and-such" and we're arguing about what Trump supposedly said, not to the person reporting it, but to another person. What was the context? Why were the questions asked? And, we have a situation where the worst is read into the question, and a motive is read into the question. He's asking why we can't use them, because the first thing he wants to do is use them. Well, why don't we take a step back? Doesn't every president need to know why they cannot (or can) be used in given circumstances? Or should/should not be used?
Yes, but you've got your lawyer hat on. A good lawyer can defend damn near anything.
The obvious answer is that we can't use them because MAD. There's nothing wrong with forgetting that.

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