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It might be that we just disagree about the meaning of "imminent danger". To me, that's NORAD on the phone screaming "HOLY FUCK, WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE... THEY JUST LAUNCHED THIRTY THOUSAND NUKES AT US AND THEY WILL BE HERE IN 6 MINUTES".
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Again, I have the sinking feeling that I brought my geometry textbook to chemistry class. Wouldn't what you describe be a "retaliatory" strike?
I thought the point here is that we're talking about preemptive action, i.e. before someone overtly attacks us. That is what i see as a break with our tradition of only attacking when provoked, and that's why Wes is pointing out that there are imminent threats that are not currently ripening into outright attacks that he would take military action to eliminate. The further point being that Iraq is not one of them.
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I'd bet Jimmy Carter would even press the red button under those circumstances. Or at least he never suggested that he wouldn't.
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Y'know, combining your hardliner military approach with your occasional cryptic references to past jobs as a "cleaner" or similar employee of the govt, I kind of envision you as being similar to Hannibal Smith from the A-Team. But strangely, the picture in my head while I read your posts is always the shot of Hannibal they showed during the opening theme song when he's dressed up as a tree and smoking a cigar. I have no idea why this is, but it's funny to think of Hannibal the tree belittling Jimmy Carter.
