In reply to FredBloggs;
No decent person wants to kill thousands of innocents. War is the greatest failure the human race falls heir to. However, the survival instinct is one of the most fundamental instincts of mankind. When you factor in WMD's to the equation you have about the worst dilemma a nation can face. When WMD's are combined with an ultra-radical class of Jihadists intent on killing mass numbers of people there seems to be only one alternative - massive use of force to insure against their success.
When nuclear weapons were first invented many scientists and politicians thought that their very presence would end all wars due to the threat of annihilation to an aggressor. With radical Islam, this is not necessarily the case. They view their death and martyrdom as victory! How do you deal with that when they have nukes or about to get them? Logic , appeasement and diplomacy will not work. You have to find them and kill them first, as well as many helpless innocents.
All these wackos need are 2 pieces of Uranium 235 big enough to total a little more than critical mass of an unreflected sphere( about 110 pounds), a steel tube and some explosives to make a gun-type atomic bomb ( the design that was used on Hiroshima). Can they smuggle the parts into Israel or the US? Yes! Will they use it and not fear the consequences? I wouldn't bet against it. All they need is Uranium ore (yellowcake) which costs about $ 20.00 per pound and some centrifuges to separate out the 0.3% U235 isotope from that ore and they have what they need to kill hundreds of thousands of people. They have the petro dollars, the technical knowhow and the will and all they need is more time. The Western world can't allow them that time. The risks are too great! We probably will have to do something before the next election cycle in 2008, unless Israel attacks first.
No decent person wants to kill thousands of innocents. War is the greatest failure the human race falls heir to. However, the survival instinct is one of the most fundamental instincts of mankind. When you factor in WMD's to the equation you have about the worst dilemma a nation can face. When WMD's are combined with an ultra-radical class of Jihadists intent on killing mass numbers of people there seems to be only one alternative - massive use of force to insure against their success.
When nuclear weapons were first invented many scientists and politicians thought that their very presence would end all wars due to the threat of annihilation to an aggressor. With radical Islam, this is not necessarily the case. They view their death and martyrdom as victory! How do you deal with that when they have nukes or about to get them? Logic , appeasement and diplomacy will not work. You have to find them and kill them first, as well as many helpless innocents.
All these wackos need are 2 pieces of Uranium 235 big enough to total a little more than critical mass of an unreflected sphere( about 110 pounds), a steel tube and some explosives to make a gun-type atomic bomb ( the design that was used on Hiroshima). Can they smuggle the parts into Israel or the US? Yes! Will they use it and not fear the consequences? I wouldn't bet against it. All they need is Uranium ore (yellowcake) which costs about $ 20.00 per pound and some centrifuges to separate out the 0.3% U235 isotope from that ore and they have what they need to kill hundreds of thousands of people. They have the petro dollars, the technical knowhow and the will and all they need is more time. The Western world can't allow them that time. The risks are too great! We probably will have to do something before the next election cycle in 2008, unless Israel attacks first.