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Originally posted by Bhadhidar
Originally posted by Magnum007
... It's like Sponge Bob vs. Goliath...
Interesting read though... Made me smile for once...
Magnum
But Goliath...Lost.
And David was Hebrew.
Still smiling?
For many years it has been reported that Israel has the neutron bomb — lots of them. (Israel also reportedly has regular atom bombs, hydrogen bombs and even nuclear land mines.)
It has also been widely reported that Israel has missile delivery systems for nuclear bombs, including the Jericho missile and much more importantly missile technology that can go much farther. As early as 1988 Israel successfully launched a three-stage satellite rocket which U.S. experts concluded had the capability to travel 2,800 miles and carry a one-ton payload. That’s almost twice the distance needed to nuke any city in Iran. In short, every square inch of Iran and Syria is completely vulnerable to Israeli nuclear missile attack. But Israel, Gulliver in Lilliput, behaves as if it is terrified and helpless.
What is the neutron bomb? How does it differ from other nuclear weapons? One of the features of many nuclear weapons is a casing around the bomb composed of materials that tend to reflect neutron radiation back inward as the explosion develops. This has the effect of building up the release of radiation further. With an overly thin casing the main effect of the explosion is a release of neutron radiation but not blast effect. This is how a neutron bomb is designed. It kills people, but leaves buildings and other structures intact. Moreover, the neutron radiation released in a neutron bomb explosion does not linger for years the way radiation fallout lasts from a regular nuclear explosion. And you don’t have a lot of fallout radiation drifting back to the country that launched the missile. Instead, the radiation is gone in only a few days, even as little as a week or less.
To be sure, there will be those who will moan against such an approach, weeping and wailing about “escalation” and the “endless cycle of violence.” Once again we refer to Machiavelli’s “The Prince.” In Chapter 3 Machiavelli wrote that, “The injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.” This is THE answer to worries about “endless cycles of violence and escalation.” If you destroy the enemy there is no escalation. We don’t need to hit Iran hard enough to “send a message.” Any military attack intended to “send a message” is not hitting hard enough. Messages are meaningless with these lunatics. This is not about taking a “message to Marie,” to borrow from a Bob Dylan song. We need to hit them hard enough that they are vanquished.
We are taught in the Talmud, Brachos 58a, “If someone comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first.” To paraphrase this, if someone comes to nuke you, nuke him first. If we cannot use nuclear weapons when someone is coming to nuke us, then when can we? In short, get out from under the desk, give yourself a testosterone injection for once in your life, trade in the flower power for firepower and nuke the bastards already.