Except that I suspect if North Korea did have a proven ability to nuke American cities, the US would back down.
Yes, I guess it would have been better if nuclear weapons had never been invented in the first place, but now we have them I fear that Mutual Assured Destruction is the only way we're going to keep any semblance of safety in the world.
Yes, in the short term, we in the UK are safer because the US has WMDs and the towelheads don't, but that position is neither fair nor tenable in the medium term.
(Who's Next is surely the more appropriate Lehrer ditty, by the way?)
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Date: 2004-02-12 01:10 pm (UTC)Yes, I guess it would have been better if nuclear weapons had never been invented in the first place, but now we have them I fear that Mutual Assured Destruction is the only way we're going to keep any semblance of safety in the world.
Yes, in the short term, we in the UK are safer because the US has WMDs and the towelheads don't, but that position is neither fair nor tenable in the medium term.
(Who's Next is surely the more appropriate Lehrer ditty, by the way?)