If we the US are so hell bent on destroying WMD, then tell me WHY IN GODS NAME does the US, and our groupie Israel ALWAYS VETO the non proliferation of WMD?
A good analogy to this nonsensical thinking would be to replace the subjects in your sentence with gangsters and police.
Would gangsters want the police to be armed? If gangsters could vote on whether police were armed or not, how do you think they would vote?
Why would police want to be armed, when they don't think the criminals should be?
(You don't have to answer, it's obvious)(And if you think the UN is totally unlike the gangster analogy, why is it they allow nations with the worst human rights violations in history to be on the human rights committee? Why did they kick the US off that committee, when we have about the best human rights record in history? How many Muslim nations are on the UN? How many of these nations use religion to dictate their politics? Has the UN ever been able to do anything without the US doing 99% of the military work?)
The reason Israel and the US can possess nukes reasonably is because we are not willing to use them (except in extreme cases, and to defend ourselves). Many people believe that other countries are very willing to use them for offense. Look at how much effort and cost (both monetarily and in lives) that the U.S. is willing to spend to minimize civilian casualties.
Have you seen this type of behavior (to protect civilians), in say, Muslim terrorists that shoot children in the back (like just happened in Russia)? Think they care about civilian casualties? Civilian casualties is their goal. How about the Palestinians? Think they try not to hurt Israeli civilians? How about through out history? The Nazis? Did they care about killing Jews who were no threat to them? How about Saddam? Did he try to not kill 500,000 plus civilians in his own country?
Now ask those questions about Israel and the US to get your answer. The US and Israel both have a lot of military power, but we use it very sparingly and judiciously, many other countries do not have that kind of mindset. Does Israel try to target only terrorists in Palestine? Yep! Are some civilians occasionally hit by mistake? Yep, but that is the difference,-- they don't try to hit anyone except those that are trying to hurt them. (Think the Muslims that shot all those Russian kids in the back, as they were running away, did so because those kids were a serious threat to them?) Nope! Why didn't the US use nukes on Iraq? It would have been a lot safer for our troops, and a lot less costly?--civilians is why! (the US population would be outraged by this, as would many other coutries) Think some Islamic fundamentalists would hesitate, even the slightest amount, before using a nuke on our civilians if they could? (If you can't answer this last question, think about 9/11 and then try to answer it!)
By the way, a lot of people reject the theory that other countries try to get nukes to prevent the US from attacking. Here's some questions for you to think about.
How many countries have we never attacked that don't have nukes, and aren't trying to get them? (This show that a lack of nukes does not mean we will attack you)
How many hostile countries have we attacked to prevent them from getting nukes? (This shows that trying to get nukes may be the cause of a war, if you are an unfriendly/unstable country)
It is the case of being unfriendly/unstable and getting the weapons that causes the war in this case, not just the weapons.
If we were so afraid of all other countries getting nukes, why would we help some (like Israel) to achieve nukes to protect themselves? (I would have no probelm with Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, to have nukes, just to name a few, because they are stable and reasonable.)
Here's another good example of why obtaining nukes does not achieve non-invasion with the US, Lybia! Why did they suddenly abandon their programs to achieve nukes? You don't think it was because of the Iraq thing do you? Do you think the US will now invade them because they abandoned their nuke programs? NOT A CHANCE!
Rodney
