Obama Lied! We are in another war....

[Aaron]

yeah but what about CEP and 50 feet and shit

[a777pilot]

A CEP of 50 feet, means that the warhead has a 50% chance of falling within 50 feet of the targeted point.

[The Comrade]

[a777pilot]

Once again, it all depends on what one is trying to kill. Not all nuclear weapons are air-burst. Do some research.

This might help: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/effects1.shtml

[The Comrade]

okay but it has to be designed as a nuclear bunker buster which, again, at that point conventional explosives could do the same thing. you don't just slam an ICBM into the ground and have it work the same way. the delivery mechanism HAS to be designed to penetrate, as does the detonator itself. so even if you jury rigged a nuclear warhead to detonate at ground so what? it still won't do anything other than waste a tremendous amount of explosive energy.

[The Dharma Bum]

[Indy]

[Philly]

It's not actually being at war non-stop. It's that there's a constant sentiment both among American foreign policy influencers and the American public that we should be using military force to intervene in whatever happens to be going on in the Middle East at the moment.

Each time it's the same weak arguments:

"The region is going to spiral out of control if we don't do anything!"
(Our repeated intervention sure has made things stable over there)

"Even if they aren't a direct threat to us right now, they will be soon if we don't step in now!"
(A lot of radical elements over there hate us and would kill us given the chance. Playing wack-a-mole each time one of them makes a ruckus is a pretty ineffective way to deal with this)

"Are we just gonna sit back while (insert humanitarian atrocity) happens?"
(Our track record shows that we aren't doing the average citizens over there any favors by having a heart and trying to save them from the bad guys)

"But this time is different. These guys are much worse than the bad guys from last time"
(This one is totally true. Let's consider why the bad guys keep getting everytime we take out the previous bad guy)

[Mr.Bill]

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