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from the it's-"talk-softly-and-CARRY-a-big-stick" dept.
Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attack according to Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as reported in Der Spiegel. "The papers were written," Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. had considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. "They had really played through all possibilities." Steiner added that Schröder feared that the US, which was in a state of shock following the attacks, would overreact. "After Sept. 11, the entire administration positively dug in. We no longer had access to Rice, much less to the president. It wasn't just our experience, but also that of the French and British as well. Of course that made us enormously worried."
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @02:54PM
> On September 10, 2001, US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, gave a speech covering plans to privatize much of the US Military
Publicly announcing your plans for a conspiracy and then implementing it the very next day in the biggest, most attention getting way the world has seen since Hiroshima would be the course of idiots. So criminal masterminds who planned for months, if not years, just decided to risk it all with a completely unnecessary public declaration of their plans right before the most critical step. Right.
The thing about conspiracy theorists is that everything can be twisted to 'prove' the conspiracy because its all just back-fitting.
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Tuesday September 01 2015, @03:08PM
When I was a teen, I was immature. Nobody wanted to have sex with me.
The ones that had sex, behaved in a very mature way.
Even today, I believe that those who have sex, are very mature and responsible people.
Since the population is growing, a lot of people have sex.
But that means, there are a lot of responsible, mature people around.
Then, who is doing all the bad things, and how can they get away with it?
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:25PM
Watch an episode of Teen Moms and tell us about sex and maturity
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @07:59PM
Fascist religions that stigmatise sex and reduce women to baby factories have a lot to do with the world's problems.