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Topic	Why don't they just nuke ISIS?
Flame_Hazard 05/23/17 2:36:43 PM #7:	adjl posted... Flame_Hazard posted... adjl posted... Because doing so would kill more innocent people than ISIS could in 20 years. 20 years is a lot of time. And they'll be lucky if they can manage more than a thousand civilian casualties a year. 20,000 civilian casualties is chump change for a nuke. Depending on where ISIS decides to hole up, 200,000 could be chump change for a nuke. One nuke. Nukes are ***ing terrifying. I suppose what I'm getting at is that anything could happen in 20 years. ISIS could get bigger. ISIS could get their own nukes. They could get something worse than a nuke that doesn't exist (or isn't known to exist) yet. All a big question mark, with the only certainty being that ISIS will continue to try* to become this big nightmare. Whether or not they make it is anyone's guess. Not to say we should nuke them. Tons of civilian casualties, and I'm not politically savvy enough to know for sure, but I imagine there would be serious consequences as well.. --- "In trying to be perfect, he perfected the art of anonymity, became imperceptible, and arrived nowhere from nowhere." -Dejan Stojanovic <cite>Flame_Hazard posted [p:879662697] in Why don't ... [t:75378388]...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Flame_Hazard posted...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>Because doing so would kill more innocent people than ISIS could in 20 years.</quote> 20 years is a lot of time.</quote> And they'll be lucky if they can manage more than a thousand civilian casualties a year. 20,000 civilian casualties is chump change for a nuke. Depending on where ISIS decides to hole up, 200,000 could be chump change for a nuke. One nuke. Nukes are ****ing terrifying.</quote> I suppose what I'm getting at is that anything could happen in 20 years. ISIS could get bigger. ISIS could get their own nukes. They could get something worse than a nuke that doesn't exist (or isn't known to exist) yet. All a big question mark, with the only certainty being that ISIS will continue to try to become this big nightmare. Whether or not they make it is anyone's guess. Not to say we should nuke them. Tons of civilian casualties, and I'm not politically savvy enough to know for sure, but I imagine there would be serious consequences as well.. --- "In trying to be perfect, he perfected the art of anonymity, became imperceptible, and arrived nowhere from nowhere." -Dejan Stojanovic</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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