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Originally Posted by GGG
Shouldn't every country have the same rights? Either all countries should be able to develop nuclear weapons or none should. Its kind of like human rights. Even a criminal has them.
I don't see how the nations with weapons can sit their with a straight face and say that other nations can't join their club. It is purely hypocritical. There is also no way Iran would ever launch because it would evoke a scorched earth response from Israel and if they were out of commision the US.
More and more I want to go isolationist and let the world take care of itself. I don't believe that in the modern world we are going to see large scale territorial wars between equal powers in the near future. Getting involved in the minor schermishes is just a waste of money and lives.
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Just so you know, a scorched earth policy is about destroying everything in one's pass as they pass through or withdraw from a territory. This is most commonly in reference to Iraqi troops burning oilfields as the Allies advanced through in 1991, and the burning of crops in civil wars.
I think what you're referring to total war, which has a far more Clausewitzian strategy behind it.