Originally Posted by
pr00ne
BEagle,
Drop it on Afghanistan, Pakistan or similar and it would just be murder, plain and simple. .
And that, dear Pop, was nuclear deterence in a nutshell.
It was either the threat to the leadership that we will incinerator your electorate, innocent or not, or the WW2 principle of collective guilt.
The only innocent ******** is a dead one. Fill in your own blanks.
The world has of course moved on since the 19th Century.