[lit-ideas] Re: Arrivederci, Mr. Bush...

From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:12:31 -0500
I got around to reading Bill Moyers' article in the NYRB and it leads me to
think that literally half the people in this country (the evangelicals)
wouldn't care if there was a nuclear attack.  They would think the
long-awaited Apocalypse is here and they will finally be raptured, sitting
at the right hand of God.  It's why the environmental regulations are
loosening up, for a last fling before the end, predicted to happen in the
next 40 years.  In fact, the war in Iraq is in the natural order of things
in preparation for the end of the world.  They are absolutely, deadly
serious.

Andy Amago



> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/16/2005 2:54:56 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Arrivederci, Mr. Bush...
>
> Paul wrote:
>
> >One of the things that make it SOOO important to keep nukes out of these 
> >maniac's hands is that, as we have seen in the past 3 1/2 years since
9/11, 
> >there's NO one THING to strike back at. So... if AQ somehow managed to
nuke 
> >a city in the US, what would they do? I mean what would they REALLY do? 
> >Short of nuking the ENTIRE Middle East and large parts of many other 
> >countries [you know, to make sure they get ALL OF THEM], what is their 
> >plan? Do they have one? What IS the strategic position taken in that 
> >particular scenario. [my attempt at the political parlance].
> >  
> >
>
> I suspect that's part of the reason behind the idea of making nations 
> responsible for the terorist groups that operate with impunity inside 
> their borders. But I can't see it as being very effective either.
>
> First, if it were a coordinated nuclear attack and several US targets 
> were struck, there woudl be horror and chaos as lack of information. Who 
> was behind the attack? It could take weeks to determine or maybe never 
> be known.  If Washington DC were hit, some relatively low-level 
> functionary could be left in charge of our retaliation.
>
> Plus we might suspect that a nation DID strike us, using the terror 
> group as a cover. So we nuke North  Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran.  Then 
> what wouudl China do? What would Russia do?
>
> This could spiral into a general nuclear conflagration so easily. As 
> soon as we were hit, other countries might decide this was their last 
> chance to strike us before we retaliated against them, whether or not 
> they were responsible. Then when it was over, our nuclear submarines 
> woudl surface, notice the backhground radiation, and deliver the nuclear 
> knockout to everyone who was left.
>
> It rockets the imagination to think how one terror attack could snowball 
> into planet-busting. Precisely why nations with nukes should decrease, 
> not increase. Five monkeys with nukes are bad enough, let alone fifty.
>
> Eric
>
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