Re: RE: pre-emptive is not enough
cortez said:
i TOTALLY agree
but why not go further
why not really be prudent and attack our allies as well since eventually its quite possible that our current allies COULD in the future-- become our enemies-- why not attack them NOW while they are still our allies-- that would really be an effective surprise attack-
the bastards wont suspect a thing
How about this for absolute security. The US could nuke (using light warheads) all major military installations worldwide, thus eliminating all military threats within minutes! And using conventional weapons, target all civilian industrial infrastructures worldwide. This would throw the rest of the world into a relative dark age instantaneously. the fact that the nukes used light warhead, it means that while neighbouring cities might get some of the fallout, it's not likely much of it will reach the US, at least not to the extent of killing anyone off. Most people worldwide of course would just die over the next few days and weeks from radiation poisoning.
the us could also consider the fallowing as an attached strategy: no nukes in the Americas from Canada to Argentina, thus again reducing fallout considerably on US soil while at the same time preserving a souce of natural resources. Conventional attacks across the Americas ought to be hard hitting though, with maximum kill being the goal, after which conventional ground troops could overwhelm Canada and Mexico, within a matter of days. No one to come to Canada's rescue! As for the rest of South America, their population might be a little hard to deal with, And as for public support, when the US realizes that the only inhabitable world left is the US and a few other chunks of the Americas, you bet public support will be way up as a matter of survival!
Now what about retaliation, you might say? Well don't forget, the rest of the world is still somewhat civilized, so they might figure that it would be best not to retaliate for the sake of the continuation of the species. So the US would avoid a nuclear counterstrike thanks to no less than the civility and brad-mindedness of the rest of the world.
After that, the US can establish its own Dominionsit Republic on the North American continent, and as the lethality of the limited nuclear strikes de-intensifies over the years, and more land becomes inhabitable, the US would just naturally expand. After all, the rest of the world would just be made up of cataract-or-cancer-ridden genetically warped cave-dwellers, if anyone at all. But since the US' original attacks would have been controlled to begin with, it would be reasonable to suppose some people would have survived on other continents away from had-been-metropolises.
South America might be less hard hit due to its smaller population. After all, the targets would be population centres. LAter on, the US could walk in and claim Brazils forests too. So eventually the Dominionist republic would crawl across the American continents and then the world. And the the Dream will finally come true.
How does that sound for pre-emptive strikes?
