The Morality Thing
Let’s play the moral balance game!
One one pan, place a group of fanatics who hate everyone. They hate technology, but are willing to use it if it means they can kill everyone else.
On the other pan, put everyone else.
The rules are simple. You have two outcomes you can choose from (you must pick one and only one): The sanctity of America’s moral high ground of not being an imperialist overlord — OR — a million dead from a thermonuclear detonation in Chicago.
This is the balance we are trying to strike now. This isn’t like 1948 where the most damage anyone could do in a single incident strike was levelling a neighborhood. And it isn’t like the Cold War, because at least then the Soviets didn’t want to die either.
So here we are. Do we respect the sovereignty of nations that support and finance the asshats that want to turn all of us in to God’s own Charcoal Briquets, or do we throw 250 years of good will to the four winds and make sure we get to wake up tomorrow?
Not an easy choice, is it? Your soul or your life? Pick one.