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Crazymann on 06 July 2011
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brendude13 said:
Crazymann said:
brendude13 said:
Hmm, I hope not, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Terrorist groups could get hold of a nuclear bomb, or as people have already said, North Korea could drop one.

I wouldn't be surprised if the USA dropped one either, depends if an idiot gets in as President again.


Harry Truman was NOT at idiot, and no president since then has even seriously pondered use of nuclear weapons due to MAD (mutually assured destruction)... not even Bush as you seem to be implying.

Really... the Bush bashing is getting old... we have a whole new type of idiot in the office now.  While it is true that we haven't had a good president in the USA for decades, let us at least try to live in the now. 

I didn't mind Bush too much, although I wouldn't trust him to made a rational decision.

And yes, I think Harry Truman was an idiot for dropping the atom bomb, it's completely innexusable. The only difference between now and 1945 is that other countries now have atom bombs and they wouldn't get away with using them.

And I'll still take any President over any Prime Minister we have in the UK, that's for sure, I like Obama.

And no, I will never "live in the now", everything just keeps getting worse and I will continue to be cynical until it changes back xD

Truman had his reasons, but these have been discussed already.  Plus, at least he admitted the difficulty of the decision and did not try to make himself look blameless.

"You know, it's easy for the Monday morning quarterback to say what the coach should have done, after the game is over. But when the decision is up before you -- and on my desk I have a motto which says The Buck Stops Here' -- the decision has to be made."  - Harry Truman

In addition, the fear of the bomb is a key component of the hesitance of the world to use them again.  Because the destruction has been seen, rational people avoid using them.  It is unlikely that an abstract concept of M.A.D. would be as effective a deterrent as actual evidence of the terrible terrible damage of a nuclear weapon.

Also, why are you so harsh on your PM's?  I am just curious.  It seems that nobody is happy with leadership these days.  Just a few examples if you please.

I really can't argue that the world isn't getting worse, but I do  not know if it is nuclear conflict that will bring about the end of the world as we know it...

"Some say the world will end in fire, others say in ice."