At 04:28 PM 1/7/03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 7 januari 2003 4:19 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world'> >But now you sound like you do indeed predict the Iraq conflict to > >become a world war - and your language suggests a certain eagerness for > >this. Is that really what you hope happens? To be blunt, I find that > >attitude dangerous, naive and misguided. > > Deboarh, my position is this: > > The jet plane was invented in the early 1940's. 60 years later it was > used to unleash destruction upon American cities. The nuclear bomb > was invented only a couple of years after the jet plane. And that is supposed to convince everyone that within a couple of years there will be a terrorist nuclear attack in the US? Device "A" was used, therefore device "B" will also be used? You will have to do better than that. While pretty much every country has jet planes, not every country has nuclear weapons. Jet planes exist in far greater numbers than nuclear bombs. And getting access to a jet plane is considerably easier (just buy a plane ticket!) than getting access to a nuclear weapon. I think you underestimate the problems involved with obtaining nuclear weapons, smuggling them into the US, and detonating them. I don't think a nuclear attack will happen. Using conventional explosives is much easier and cheaper for terrorist organisations, and no country is going to launch a nuclear missile against the US because they know the US will retaliate immediately -- such a strike would only lead to their own destruction. Dictators like Saddam Hussein may be crazy, but they are not stupid.
What if they bring it into a US coastal city in the cargo hold of an ocean freighter, and detonate it there, or perhaps bring it into another country on the American continent by ship and then load it on a truck and drive it across the border to the target city (ala _The Sum of All Fears_--the book, that is, not necessarily the movie, which bore little resemblance to the book except the title . . . ). Against whom would the US "immediately retaliate" in one of those cases?
> September 11th taught us that there existed enemies who would seek to > destroy us. There have been enemies of the US who have been advocating the destruction of the US since decades before the September 11 attacks. Jeroen "No nukes" van Baardwijk
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