Normandy?
Look, soldiers get sent into impossible odds all the time during a war. Our dissolution missions run more along the lines of sending soldiers into impossible odds, and no, they aren't always asked to volunteer. The 1950 film, The Dam Busters described the actual attacks of the 617 squadron against dams in the Ruhr valley of Germany. The straight-in approach of all be the very 1st aircraft was a virtual dissolution mission because they were sitting ducks when flying in a straight line.
Its funny, you can find accounts of Russian pilots in WW2 flying their aircraft into bridges, and Isrealis, and of course the persons, and the Kamikaze, but not much on American dissolution missions. Were our guys any less gallant? I don't think so - I think the reporting of such isn't popular, so there isn't that much reporting.
The damn leaders are quite rational - Bin Laden beat feet out of his Afgan hidy-hole so as not to get fired up, and he'll not personally accept rest in this manner either. He's got a goal of toppling the Saudis and getting his skinny butt placed in charge of all that oil. The religious zealot thing is just a means to an end. He's like all the rest - a greedy so-and-so that simply has an angle.
You don't understand... we figure out what reactor produced the nuclear residue we're seeing, and plant that country that is running that reactor into oblivion.
Its not the responsible people, its the responsible government - any government that screws up and can't control its nukes - well, its WW3 (or 4, depending on how you're counting) and maybe global thermnuclear war.
But with that sort of consequence riding on the outcome of keeping one's nukes at home, its pretty damn certain nobody's going to let them get out of the yard.
I mean, you lose 6 - 8 million people and your most important city, and its time to get deadly serious.
You want to live in a world where your country's cities are getting blown up by nukes, 1 after the other, and not retaliate in the only effective manner?
Dave Head
