If memory serves during the Cold War, when it became apparent that nukes were a bad thing, negotiations dealt with both countries, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., reducing their nuclear stockpiles. Reagan didn't insist you get rid of all your nuclear weapons and we keep ours. We are the only country in the history of the world to have dropped the atomic bomb on a major city, make that twice, we did it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 respectively. It's as if we're saying to Iran and North Korea only we know how to use nuclear weapons responsibly, only we know when it is morally right to incinerate entire populations including pregnant women and children (are pro-lifers against these nuclear "abortions" too?). Make no mistake, rogue nations like Iran and North Korea should not have nukes but I'm just wondering where we get our moral platform from. Does God agree with our first use of nuclear weapons way back when? (a question nobody even deems relevant to ask). We seem to see ourselves as the final arbiters of ultimate morality, of Right and Wrong, not God. We have become Supermen.
E=mc2 Energy equals the mass of something times the speed of light squared (the speed of light being about 186,000 miles/sec.) This formula of Einstein dealing with mass and energy conversion led to the Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer, the genie was let out of the bottle, we ate from the forbidden tree and now we are worried that terrorists may turn the nuclear tables against us. I don't know if we can turn to God in these times since if He didn't approve of our actions in 1945 He might find it ironic that we are now asking for His help. We need that National Day of Prayer that Lincoln penned during the Civil War now more than ever. Our Lady of Fatima, The Mother of the Divine Mercy, pray for us. People who masturbate your mind
You know I have always had an uncomfortable feeling about what you speak of here, how our country used nukes to kill many innocent people, how hypocritical we are and in a way I don't blame nations for giving us the proverbial finger at our arrogance of telling them they cannot have what we have.
ReplyDeleteHowever, we did use nukes to end a war, whereas rouge nations might use them to start one.
On your point of asking God for help, he is a forgiving God of course and I think our prayers should reflect our desire to have a peaceful world and not be asking God selfishly for our own protection.
I think Bush is the most religious president we've had so far after Lincoln but on the point of the "rightness" of us using nukes to end a war would we ever do it again? It's like a woman who had an abortion and insists it was the right thing to do but she would never do it again, if it was right why not? Might we use nukes to end the War on Terrorism once and for all as Michael Savage suggests we do?
ReplyDeleteI simply don't understand why nations such as Iran and North Korea mess with us knowing we could obliterate them if we wanted to. I think they know basically that we won't, and meanwhile they are trying to catch up to our stockpiles.
ReplyDeleteI say we develop technology to try to detect radiation and also interceptors so we can protect ourselves from others using nuclear weapons against us.
I never understood liberals' reflexive opposition to Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative which they disparagingly dubbed "Star Wars." Why would they be against us having our very own nuclear shield? They acted like this strictly defensive mechanism, even though it was only theoretical, was an act of aggression on Reagan's part, then again they lost 49 states to him. Now to anyone who's a regular reader of my blogs I am not at all against being outside the mainstream but this is wild blue yonder stuff.
ReplyDeleteThere's being outside of the mainstream, and then there is just being contrary for the sake of being contrary.
ReplyDeletePolitics is mostly just being contrary anymore.
That's a great gem of a thought you have there Beth. Agree or disagree with me but every time I venture outside the mainstream I do so out of principle, it is in my heart, but as for politics you are right on and I suggest we coin a new term for our political lexicon and that is contrarianism. Example: Howard Dean is not a serious liberal thinker, he is a contrarian. Kudos Beth.
ReplyDeleteThe stupid contrarian House of Reps didn't pass the fetal pain bill today. God forbid they acknowledge that the unborn children that are aborted feel excruciating pain when doctors puncture their skulls and suck them violently out of their mother's womb.
ReplyDeleteOf course a policy of protecting just the USA from nuclear attack is not the only concern we have, Israel is in a much more dangerous position for such an attack.
ReplyDeleteI was watching O'Reilly's first few guest tonight, and one was saying that Iran is like the Third Reich, and that does seem to be the case. If you had seen a special that Glenn Beck had on last month, you would have seen some raw footage of the indoctrinated Islamic people (even children) spewing hateful things about Jewish people and Americans. Stuff the msm just doesn't show you (what else is new?)but very enlightening.