TheRealMafoo on 06 April 2009
| akuma587 said: Wouldn't the best first step to telling other countries to not acquire nuclear weapons be to reduce our own arsenal? Its like telling people they don't need more guns to defend themselves while they watch you stockpile guns in the process in the name of national defense. |
I think the issue with most Americans who think like this, is they think the world is safer then it really is.
A good analogy would be if two people who didn't like each other, and one was known to be somewhat violent.
The violent one has a baseball bat, and the less violent one has a gun and a baseball bat. If you were the guy with the gun, would you point it at the guy with the bat and tell him to put it down, or would you throw your gun away and then say "let's both now put our bats down"?
The safest bet, for your best interests, is to point the gun at him and make him. Asking him without the upper hand has a much higher probability of failure.
