On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:53, Gareth Owen wrote:
"Abe Sokolov"
<abesokolov(a)hotmail.com> writes:
> Ray wrote:
>
> "In the cold war era when both sides were
ponting nuclear missiles at
the
> other it was MAD (Mutually Assured
Destruction)
:-)"
Yes, and didnt it work?
No it didn't work. There was no nuclear war, but
there were plenty of fair
sizable non-nuclear wars -- the US in Vietnam and
the Russians in Afghanistan
spring to mind -- and the number of civilian
casualties (sorry, "collateral
damage") runs into millions.
Offlist,
please.
That was a completely relevant comment. Someone was
making an anology to MAD, saying that that helped (and
that was their entire argument, pretty much), but that
was a bad anology and therefore a bad argument. I
don't think any case of supposed mutually assured
destruction could be beneficial.
LDan
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