Reply #89: Silverhair's response [View All]

I am amazed at how many DUers would want us to basically do nothing except apologize to the world for making them want to nuke us. Do that, and no Democrats will ever be elected to anything, anywhere, ever again.

I am going to try for real world ideas. One of the things I hated in Tom Clancy's, "The Sum of All Fears", (Aside from the fact it was waaaaay too long and got off track too much.)was that the American public was going to be happy with only one terrorist executed after a nuke attack on Denver during the Superbowl. (Yeah. Right. - NOT)

The American people will be demanding a blood response, and having a UN meeting to get a resolution condemning the attack won't make them happy. A weak response will ensure the PERMANENT removal of all Democrats nationwide from all offices forever.

I stipulated the nuke came from NK. I was postulating the possibility of NK selling the nuke. I am under the impression that it is possible to tell the plant that made the fissionable material from isotope samples after an explosion. (If I am wrong on that I welcome being corrected by those more knowledgeable than I.)

However, on second thought, I am going to change the scenario to make it more realistic. Change is: We can't tell who made the fissionable material, or it came from a country that we can't nuke.

I am going to stay with the Islamic terrorists for now, as that is where most of the terrorism is coming from these days, but will expand the thought a bit later.

1. After the initial first response and disaster assistance stuff, an ultimatum would be delivered the the list of known state sponsors of terrorism. Clean house in one week or you will be nuked. Since all of them are dictatorships they have the ability to comply. The threat would be public and would not be a bluff. I would demand that the terrorist be handed over to the USA, dead or alive. If I could see that the country was engaged in a good faith effort to clean house, but was engaged in difficult fighting, I would extend the time as needed. I would not be bluffing.

That only addresses the short term problem.

2. For the long term. I would start a NEW UN. I would call it something else. I would tell the old UN to kiss off, and would get out of it and kick it out of the USA. The current UN is hopelessly corrupt, and about 2/3 of the nations in it are dictatorships. To be a voting member of the Cooperating Nations your nation would have to be:
a) A genuine democracy of some sort.
b) Cooperative and presenting a united front to terrorists. That would mean total cooperation of police and military efforts. There would be a CN capital and a CN court, and a CN military, and a CN police - limited to CN matters.
c) Total Free Trade among CN members. (Like the USA is composted of total free trade among member states.)

If your country was not a democracy, you could get an associate membership that would not include a vote, but would include some of the benefits and responsibilities. You would have to give total cooperation to the anti-terrorist effort.

3. Free speech would suffer some. Groups that preach hate and violence would have their leaders removed and executed - quietly. The leader just wouldn't be there anymore. If that is impossible to do quietly, then publicly if you have to do.

4. Freedom from spying would suffer also. Sorry, but you have to get good intel on the terrorist groups, and with a city having been nuked, the stakes are too high not to get good info.

5. A declaration by the CN that no other nation would be allowed to develop nukes. Any effort in that direction would be seen as the first step in a nuclear war, and would be treated as such.

6. Strong CN effort to develop alternative energy to reduce world dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear fuels. Such technology would be freely shared with the rest of the world.

7. Worldwide effort to promote democracy.