Sunnis and Christians are pussies. They don't love death.
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Of course, Martyrdom is how it originated, after all (Karbala and whatnot). Not so for the Sunnis.
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Oh, and what 'bout the countless saints who got tortured or killed in Roman times (this is for all you Catholics out there, we all know you heathen protestant *****es don't want to worship those heroes!)"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca
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ZOMBIE JESUS?
KILL IT!12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio Regum
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Originally posted by Traianvs
So John Mearsheimer was your professor at uni?? So you are probably from Illinois and you studied what?
Anyway, Mearsheimer is an anachronism. It surprises me he even has an audience these days. He could be right on the issue you brought forward there though.
Yes, Mearsheimer is old fashioned (in the only classroom experience I had with him, he called the Chinese "Chinamen") but he isn't clueless about MAD.
The issue with having a viable MAd strategy is not just numbers, but survivability.
In order for a country to have a credible nuclear retalitory force, and thus make them able to use a MAD strategy, you need to be able to guarantee that a significant number of strategic warheads will survive the initial strike and would be able to mount a credible (as in, gets through enemy defenses) and coordinated counterstrike.
The Chinese are closer to France and the UK in terms of strategic warheads, and their ICBM's are still older, not equipped for multiple warheads, and all landbased.
Israel lacks the land area to hide anything, and they are also lacking a sea based deterrent. India and Pakistan both have too few nukes and backwards enough command and control that in their case a first strike scenerio makes some sense, given that they could, if lucky, really cripple the other side's ability to launch any nuclear retaliation.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw
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