Who in their right mind believes that any country would launch a missile on the US?

[Postman]

It's crazy talk to suggest that any country would.

It would be suicide by that country and I believe it's just alot of hot air to gin up more fear and more spending on military hardware....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. remember Condi's mushroom cloud??

:nuke:

[Postman]

7. It's crazy talk....

N. Korea, Iran - whomever......

Missile lands in Chicago........N. Korea, Iran - whomever... turns into black, boiling earth....

Do these wackjob rightwingers not get it?

[Statistical]

2. It is suicidal to use a suicide bomb or fly a plane into a building

Not everbody is sane. not everyone cares about living.

that being said I do think we can cut the budget and spend our money wiser.

Do we need 8 aircraft carriers? I think no. Maybe retire (mothball in case they are needed) the 3 oldest ones.

Do we need 2000 nuclear warheads? No. Maybe 900 would be enough.

[NNN0LHI]

43. Who thinks those men on those planes would have done what they did if ...

...their own family members were on the planes with them? I bet none.

Any government who shot a missile at us would be causing their own families to be killed so they wouldn't do it either.

See the difference?

Don

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Frank Gaffney?

I volunteer to drive the wooden stake through the place in his chest where a heart would otherwise be.

What a flaming douchebag...............

[doctor jazz]

18. Uh, he said "who in their right mind..."

;-)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. Mea culpa..............

Thank you. I tend to confuse evil with insane, and you rescued me with this one.

Nice catch...........

:toast:

[JuniperLea]

4. "It would be suicide by that country"

Well, there you have it. You've answered your own question. Desperation makes people and countries do desperate things.

I think there is far less chance of that happening now. However, how many world leaders can you name that might conceivably be suffering from mental illness?

[terisan]

5. Yes like as flying planes into skyscrapers. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. John McCain

[MercutioATC]

8. If everybody in the world was sane, I'd agree with your premise.

However, there are people crazy enough to act regardless of the consequences.

[Postman]

10. I don't buy it.

Yes, there are crazy individuals. But heads of state giving the go ahead to launch on the US? No.

Kim Jong Ill is going to allow a launch on the US? The "leaders" of Iran are going to allow a launch on the US. Knowing full well that it means the end of all life in their countries...

I don't buy it.

[Democracyinkind]

16. Like blasting a city into kingdom come

killing 100,000 in a few seconds including 8 of our own servicemen. Definitely.
Let's not forget that we have set the example in this race to the bottom.

[Raine]

9. Sorry ... I do

before Sept 11 I would've said "no" but now whether something is suicide or not doesn't deter some.

[gizmo1979]

11. The guy from North Korea

isn't in his right mind.Just sayin.

[Postman]

12. May be, but he likes his life and....

he likes the fact he is served by all those peasants in his country. A launch on the US means and end to all of that and he knows it, so it's all bs

[NeedleCast]

20. May not be in his right mind

but he's smart enough to know that an attack on the US or its allies would most likely be the end of his regime.

[Fire1]

13. I buy it, big time. 9/11 was proof enough for me.

[Postman]

17. 9/11 wasn't done by state actors...it was done by individuals using unconventional methods...

quite different than missile launches from silos in countries where they can be traced back to their origin....in which they are obliterated.....

[Fire1]

30. North Koreans?? They're just as crazy and filled with as much

disdain for this country as Al Quada.

[Postman]

32. All North Koreans are just as crazy as Al Qaeda?

Do you have a hotline to Asia?

How do you know what N. Koreans think?

[Fire1]

37. I'm just going by history. Who cares what I think, anyway?

[Occam Bandage]

40. Just the ones who matter to this conversation.

[doctor jazz]

21. I hope you aren't among the 40 percent who think Iraq had something to do with it

:shrug:

[Fire1]

24. Oh hell no. We all know that was a contrived lie from shrub.

That's yesterday's news.

[The Straight Story]

14. Who would open fire on police, or run suicide attacks on people?

Lot's of whack jobs out there willing to die for their cause.

[Postman]

19. Again, individual acts not acts of war by states....

[The Straight Story]

26. yeah, well when you have people leading countries and those people are whackos

They might just go and do something like that.

Which world leaders do you trust with nukes?

[Postman]

31. You mean people who would attack countries with made up intelligence?

I don't believe anyone should have nukes but as it is, if a country eventually develops them, then they need to be addressed with diplomacy. Military action only pushes off the inevitable and makes enemies in the mean time....

[NeedleCast]

Country? Probably Not.

But some individuals and groups don't really care about countries.

[lurky]

15. The point of missile defense is not really defense.

They are just using that to sell it to the public. The real purpose is to allow us to make a first strike and not get hit back. It undermines the whole Mutually Assured Destruction stalemate that has kept us alive all these years, and that is why Russia is so upset about it. Oh, and it's also a good way for defense contractors to suck billions of dollars out of the US treasury.

[Postman]

23. Exactly.

Let's play the fear card to the morons.

N. Korea launches suped-up firecracker. We can sell it to the fools hiding under their beds as proof we need a "missile defense" that sucks billions more resources away from where it's really needed.....

[stray cat]

22. It wouldn't be a country but it could easily be a fringe group within a country

then we have to decide whether to destroy a country of innocent civilians because of the action of a few. Also, countries can sell weapons including nuclear to fringe groups - particularly given the poverty in places like N. Korea.

[Postman]

27. So some "fringe group" is going to get an intercontinental missile?

and all it's accoutrement's needed to launch?

I'm glad Europe decided not to attack the US between 2003 and 2008 because a "fringe group" was in charge.....

[LanternWaste]

25. When I was young...

When I was young, I read impending attacks by the Evil Soviets into just about every news report I watched, plane in the sky, and even number or people walking into or out of a government building. i had allowed my own personal paranoia to color my world view.

As I've gotten older, I realize that for the most part, people simply want to live and love-- even those people in North Korea. And a nuclear attack anywhere in the world (let alone one directed at the U.S.) would deny that life and love to those who value it most.

It's an interesting scenario for cocktail parties and basement pot-party pow-wows (not the Sham-Wow-- two different things... :P ), but for a mind that doesn't salivate over dystopian, post-apocalyptic, rapture-ready scenarios based on badly written, hack-authored science fiction novellas, the probability of NK launching an attack on the U.S. is just a few degrees higher than the possibility that my urine will be completely composed of cheddar cheese tomorrow morning.

[Postman]

33. Thank you for your sanity...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. Reds under the beds

I remember those cold war days. They used to build nuclear shelters!

[emilyg]

28. Who thought planes could kill thousands of people?

[Postman]

34. So what's your point?

[harun]

35. Of course no country would. I think a country might do it to make it look like

another country is doing it though.

[Postman]

36. A guarantee of not getting attacked is HAVING nukes...

That's why they are coveted..

[harun]

42. I agree.

[depakid]

39. Some leaders (and populations) are crazy

Anyone looking through the pages of history can cite example after example of similarly self destructive behavior (that no one in their right mind can believe).

[Iggo]

41. "Suicide Bomber"

It's right there in the name.