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Originally Posted by T@T
What?
Do terrorists have nuclear weapons?
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This is not what I was implying.
I was pointing to the slippery slope argument and what would of happen in the last 60 years if the western world's first responses was to simply bomb them all, no matter who lived there when we thought there were terrorist in a village.
I believe this hostility would have created such a resistance from others in the world that there is a strong chance things would have built up to the point of nuclear nations at war.
Innocent lives matter, we should always hope our leaders deeply consider this when using our advance weapons, even if a village is predominantly evil. Having leaders who pull the trigger too early is cowardly as a society.
It was stated that Bill Clinton could have had Bin Laden, but it was at the expense of too many innocent lives. I won't pretend to know if he made the right choice there.