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Subject: Re: The Nuclear Option
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Date: 8 Feb 91 00:08:19 GMT
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>  Bruce Fast
>> Gary Strand

>> [M]ostly as a psycho-political guessing game, kind of like a bluff in 
>> poker.

> When Butch muses about using nuclear weapons, someone should whup him
> up side the head.  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!
> NO NUCLEAR "BLUFFS", PLEASE!

  A bluff is a bluff until it's played. Simply because Saddam didn't think
  that we'd actually attack him, and we did/are, doesn't mean that Bush
  et.al. will necessarily use nukes against him. As I said, the military
  doesn't see much utility in using them, and given Bush's deference to the
  military (pretty much) I don't think we'll see them used.

-- 
Gary Strand                           There is only one success -- to be able
Internet: strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu      to spend your life in your own way.
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