Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
My answer had nothing to do with that. Even if the U.S. government nuked 100 of their cities just for kicks, killing innocent Americans now with no rational calculation involving necessary results is irrational, period.

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Are you sure you read all of my post? See what I said about stealing Indian land. I agree with you. Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. It was rational. Targetting civilians is always awful but not always irrational.

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It is a matter of probability. There was an extremely high likelihood that nuking the two Japanese cities would end World War II. But blowing up cafes in Jerusalem has about a 0% chance of making all of the Jews move out of Israel. The insurgent terrorism in Iraq is exactly what is keeping us there. That scum is irrational. Do you agree?
Wow, so you are saying that bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima was rational, because it would end WW2.

You are saying that it would be not be rational to blow up cafes in Jerusalem, but dropping a nuke would be!

A nuke in Jerusalem will probably move the jews out of the city, and end the war. Hell, why not 2 or 3 nukes, just to be sure.