sperrico87 said:
Slimebeast said:
sperrico87 said:
Kasz216 said:
deskpro2k3 said:
i don't see the point of spreading all this fear. all this coming from the mainstream media as well. But, somehow everyone forgot Pakistan have nukes, and there is supposedly talibans in there.
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So your point is... one really unstable country that may have terrorists in it has nukes so we should hand them out to every unstable nation with terrorists in it?
Have you really thought this arguement through?
That and the "The US is the only country to have used nukes" are about the laziest, uncritically most unthought out arguements I've ever seen on the issue.
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Nearly every country that surrounds Iran has nukes, so wouldn't you at least acknowledge why it might be natural for them to want nukes as well? If they were a nuclear state like us and so many of our allies, they would be given more respect and people wouldn't be so quick to dismiss and ridicule them.
The media, and therefore most people over here are totally blind and ignorant when it comes to nations that are not fully westernized and Christian. The argument you just made basically stating that any country we deem "unstable" that "has terrorists in it" shouldn't have nukes, I believe is grievously incorrect.
There are terrorists in the United States as well, does that mean from another country's perspective we shouldn't be allowed to have nukes either? Who gets to decide that? Who are we to go around the world and determine who does and doesn't deserve to have nuclear weapons? Who is anyone else to determine whether or not we are? What makes us in the US so special that we have the right to determine what other nations are and are not allowed to do?
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Theocratic rogue states shouldn't have nukes. Any sane person should agree with that, unless you belong to either part of the clash of civilizations (Western freedom & secular democracy ideals versus Third world religious & apocalyptic ideals and/or communist worldwide revolution illusions).
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Let me ask again: What gives us the right to determine who is and is not allowed to have nuclear weapons? Where do we get that authority from?
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Kasz I think has repeatedly explained it in this thread already.
But simply put:
The background is historical: unfortunately some states were able to aquire nukes before there was any working controlling authority in place.
But now we have.
And the rule is simple (and it's not a USA invention): no state that already doesn't have nukes is allowed to aquire nukes. And it doesn't matter if it's Canada,Germany, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Nigeria or Iran. It doesn't matter who you are or what your status as a nation is. No state is allowed to destabilize the world even more by becoming another nation with nukes.
