Well. Isn’t this nice. I seem to have found one of the dozens of ‘hate America’ threads already.
First of all, it’s pretty hard to say that using a tactical nuke is going to ‘fuck up the world’ when countries routinely test nuclear bombs hundreds of times bigger than the weapon we are talking about. A W54 “Davey Crockett” type bomb wouldn’t create a giant mushroom cloud into the stratosphere like H-Bombs do. It would look like a big mother of a conventional bomb blast, and the fallout would be controllable and land not more than probably 1/2 mile downrange or so.
Second, HOW DARE the rest of the world criticise the U.S. You America bashers frankly make me sick. The U.S. has been incredibly restrained so far in this ‘war’. The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is measured in the hundreds, and on the low end of that scale. That is unheard of in a military operation of this size, and it’s testament to the great care in which the U.S. has been fighting.
I don’t support the use of Nukes, for the simple reason that it gives ammunition to America-bashers like the people in this thread.
As for American morality, I would like to point out that the U.S. could have annexed half the bleemin’ world at the end of WWII, but it not only chose to give the countries back to the people who had been trying to destroy it, but spent billions of dollars reconstructing those nations. America has NEVER been an expansionist country. It has a history of treating prisoners of war better than anyone else, and of fighting ‘fairer’ than just about anyone else.
And the reason the world lives in relative peace today (and why my country can blow all its money on social programs instead of a huge military) is because the entire world is the benefactor of a 350 billion dollar a year military budget, much of which goes to defending other countries against external agressors as it did in Bosnia and Kuwait.
The American military is the world’s biggest aid program, and should be considered as such when trying to determine which countries are more ‘generous’ than others.
I’m not American, but the United States has my eternal gratitude.