Verge of a hostage crisis?

@shavixmir said
To make my sentiments clear: I oppose the using of Nukes on Japan and consider it a war crime.

It did work though.

@mott-the-hoople said
anyone not willing to do what is necessary to insure their survival is a fool.

@shavixmir said
The trump deal released 5000 Taliban prisoners. It’s well known.

@mghrn55 said
If I recall correctly ..........
You once advocated firing nukes at China if their GDP threatened to surpass the US.
You can challenge me to prove it. But I won't bother going into the forum history.
I do have a pretty good memory though.

But to be sure, China will surpass the US as the world's number 1 economic power within the next decade or so.
It's not a matter of if. But when.

@averagejoe1 said
As I have said, they will hold several hundred Americans, they need stuff, and the only way to get it is from the United States, so they will attempt to exchange hostages for it. I will not venture here what their threats will be, use your imagination, with savages, in your thinking, as your protagonists.
Further, they will select those Americans who are the most important, the most valuable.

So sad.

@averagejoe1 said
I'm not a student of ordnance, nor of warfare. Not nuclear bombs....I think just carpet bombs and just good old fashioned let-em-have-it 24/7. Just have our bright military people open up intelligence to the point that we know where they are and kill them. Some innocents will die, but they did in Hiroshima. We did Japan, and us, a favor when we did that. We best do the world a favor and exterminate these middle-age savages.

@no1marauder said
The right wing hostage fantasy doesn't exist in the real world. American citizens are being evacuated in droves every day.

And even if all who want to leave aren't out by August 31st, it's likely they'll be a US embassy in Kabul where they could seek evacuation.https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/1030adf9279f-taliban-asks-us-to-retain-embassy-in-kabul-guarantees-security.html

@shavixmir said
Would you pull the trigger, in full knowledge you’ll be murdering thousands of children as well?
And in full knowledge that the international community will give you life imprisonment for it?

Would you still do it?

@shavixmir said
Would you pull the trigger, in full knowledge you’ll be murdering thousands of children as well?
And in full knowledge that the international community will give you life imprisonment for it?

Would you still do it?

@no1marauder said
The right wing hostage fantasy doesn't exist in the real world. American citizens are being evacuated in droves every day.

And even if all who want to leave aren't out by August 31st, it's likely they'll be a US embassy in Kabul where they could seek evacuation.https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/1030adf9279f-taliban-asks-us-to-retain-embassy-in-kabul-guarantees-security.html

@shavixmir said
Would you pull the trigger, in full knowledge you’ll be murdering thousands of children as well?
And in full knowledge that the international community will give you life imprisonment for it?

Would you still do it?

@AverageJoe1

Let us remember that many of our leaders in August 1945 seemed to think it was a good idea. We can all agree or disagree. I for one would have pulled that trigger.

@averagejoe1 said
@AverageJoe1

Let us remember that many of our leaders in August 1945 seemed to think it was a good idea. We can all agree or disagree. I for one would have pulled that trigger.

Up to 12 now

@mott-the-hoople said
all is fair in love and war.

BTW...I like the way you pose this question as if the oppressor is not doing the same.