“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.”

Not just war with other nations, but the domestic wars being carried out against the common people by their police state. When we contemplate how trapped we have become by ignoring our responsibilities to keep our government in check, the oppression seems irreversible -- but we must try!!

The fact of the matter, thermonuclear war is thought about often. How to us it is there question. With tensions increasing it is not if but when will it be used again ? Private agendas of the corperate and military complex, one wishing to sway the other to achive there goals. Pre-emptive strike is fround upon, but when all else is exsausted and our enemies continuing to fuel discontent among neigbors wether at home or abroad the result will be a strike. Riches wether land or resourses or people will be won. People being renewable in some views are secound thought. Views of humanitarian betterment have always been overshadowed by corperate and government greed. The undercurrent that has always brought distruction and loss of life. Just as President Obama with good ententions is guided by the undercurrent. We will not go backwards but move forward through the dividing of our nation and the blending and domesticating of the world to fulfill there agendas of ruling the world. Their order brought wether through war or domesticating of a nations people, (the common man).

Ron, it is hard to agree with a lengthy and poorly written argument. May I suggest using a spell checker before posting? It is built in to the Google toolbar if you have one. Thank you.

So badly written I could not begin to comment.

This quote brings to mind; "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." (Declaration of Independence). Beyond the threat of thermonuclear war, the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land has not yet risen to an insufferable evil / "extremely unpleasant" tyranny as would bring about the unthinkable solution of correcting the corruption of anti-nature's usurpation and despotism.

Let me begin the discussion, by saying these goddamn items exist, meaning thermonuclear weapons, and they simply shouldn't. And further we should dismantle these weapons on a worldwide scale and completely rid ourselves of these misguided toys for mentally ill boys.  Healthy mentalities think the existence of these weapons overwhelmingly clearly inappropriate.