Cycloptichorn wrote:Brandon9000 wrote:dyslexia wrote:3010 dead lol
At the moment of invasion, it was absolutely unclear whether the Iraqi WMD programs had been stopped or merely hidden better. Had the latter been the case, as it might well have been, and had we allowed failed diplomacy to drag on, one of the WMD programs might well have succeeded, and then you might soon be talking about hundreds of thousands dead. You demonstrate a persistent failure to see only both sides of the coin.
And, guess what, this same situation will repeat over and over and over - a terrible dictator attempting to develop WMD, with the exact state of his programs very murky. If we never invade, no matter what, sooner or later, the scenario I describe above will certainly occur.
Eventually America will suffer a gigantic volcano eruption.
Eventually the Earth will be hit by a gigantic asteroid.
Statistically all these things are certainties, in the long run. You are correct Brandon that it is a statistical certainty that someone will use WMD in the long run, sooner or later. You err in believing that anything the US can do will stop this - in the long run.
If the Iran hysteria keeps getting ramped up, the next country to use WMD could very well be the US or Israel...
Cycloptichorn
The fact that bad people will continue to seek WMD, and the exact status of their programs will often be unclear is an absolute certainty.
As for the use of these weapons, you are falsely comparing things for which the probability per unit time is very, very small, to things which are actually likely to occur in the next few decades if proliferation continues. You are making an argument about as reasonable as trying to disprove:
If I ignore my teeth, I will probably eventually get a cavity.
by saying:
If I keep flying in airplanes, I will probably eventually be on a plane that's hijacked.