Monday, April 21, 2008
This is astonishing. Maybe too late? 2
Hillary continues to astonish me. Tonight in an MSNBC interview with Idiot Olbermann, who was trying to ask her all the usual idiotic questions about words and campaigning, Hillary managed to get out a serious and well-constructed position statement on Persia. What's more, the statement runs along the same lines that Polistra was suggesting, but Hillary's version is more practical.
The important concept: Arming the good guys works better than trying to disarm everyone, whether you're talking about college campuses or the Middle East.
Nobody is 100% irrational. Even suicidal maniacs avoid a futile suicide; nobody has ever shot up the West Point campus, nobody has ever shot up a police academy. Suicidal maniacs want to view their evil handiwork before dying.
Mutual Assured Destruction worked well for 50 years. So let's rebuild it, instead of trying to eliminate all weapons, which is impossible anyway.
Polistra suggested allowing Persia's neighbors to go nuclear, in order to set up a balance that would keep Persia in line.
Hillary's idea is more practical: We should make it absolutely clear and explicit (none of this weasely crap about All Options On The Table) that we will destroy Persia if it makes the slightest real move against Israel, and we should set up a NATO-like agreement with Persia's neighbors, so that we will promise to destroy Persia if it threatens any of them.
Again: Damn, Hillary, why didn't you talk this way from the start? ¶ 9:05 PM
The important concept: Arming the good guys works better than trying to disarm everyone, whether you're talking about college campuses or the Middle East.
Nobody is 100% irrational. Even suicidal maniacs avoid a futile suicide; nobody has ever shot up the West Point campus, nobody has ever shot up a police academy. Suicidal maniacs want to view their evil handiwork before dying.
Mutual Assured Destruction worked well for 50 years. So let's rebuild it, instead of trying to eliminate all weapons, which is impossible anyway.
Polistra suggested allowing Persia's neighbors to go nuclear, in order to set up a balance that would keep Persia in line.
Hillary's idea is more practical: We should make it absolutely clear and explicit (none of this weasely crap about All Options On The Table) that we will destroy Persia if it makes the slightest real move against Israel, and we should set up a NATO-like agreement with Persia's neighbors, so that we will promise to destroy Persia if it threatens any of them.
Again: Damn, Hillary, why didn't you talk this way from the start? ¶ 9:05 PM
