Reply #22: isn't this just MAD, an official usa policy?

[pitohui]

sounds like an offshoot of "mutual assured destruction" to me

we all made fun of it, but when i was a kid, we thought we'd all be blasted to beans by now, so who knows, maybe there was something to it

:shrug:

if you think the terrorists are random crazy people, yeah, it wouldn't work, but i believe they are being funded by gov'ts such as saudi arabia -- and in that case it WOULD work