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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
September 11th.
You can't fight the whole Islamic world by yourself. You can't even win in Iraq by yourself. This simply isn't realistic!
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Now Sham, it's not that unrealistic (numbers wise, it would have to be nuclear), the real question is are we willing to pay the price for doing that? And exactly what would be the price?
Invasion of the USA mainland is out, troop ships would never make it to our shores, and we wouldn't allow them to make it to anywhere in the Americas. Nukes are out, any nuke strike wouldn't do much damage to the USA's retalitory(sp?) ability to wipe the attacker off the face of the earth, even if all nuke owners attacked together) the numbers aren't there anymore. Economic embargo, the world would be cutting off their nose to spite their face. We won't do it because that is not our style.
