Okay I get the idea. Dropping A bombs on Japan was a bad idea and Truman was a jerk for doing so. Maybe so but the guy was between a rock and a hard place and so is Obama . He cannot win no matter what course he takes, so screw that nice guy stuff, as Truman said. He's got to go for the bigger good, sacrificing some so that many will be saved. Hopefully it won't end up a Truman /MacArthur type confrontation.
Chewbacca defense?
You still don't address the actual question there: so to save them from the Taliban, you want to kill more innocent people than the Taliban ever did? Doesn't it seem like the solution is worse than the problem?
Also, there you go again with that irrelevant WW2 comparison. In WW2 you were fighting a country which had declared war on you. Here you propose nothing less than taking it on civillians of an already puppeted nation, as an act of terror to keep them under control.
If you want a more apt comparison with WW2, here's one: the Nazi idea in France and Russia was that for each partisan attack or sabotage, they'd round up a bunch of civillians in the village square and shoot them. That ought to keep them in line. Your plan is just the 2009 version of that, with nukes instead of rifles.
It boils down to whether or not you think the Taliban can be negotiated with and whether or not ruthless opiated thugs with extremist Dark Age religious views who destroy 1000 year old Buddhist site, throw acid in 10 year old girl's faces who dare to get an eduction, demand that women be subjugated or suffer caning, pray to get nukes to use on NYC, and shamelessly use teenagers with low self esteem for suicide bombers aren't really so bad. I guess you know where I stand. I've drawn my line in the sand with them.
So to save a few innocent girls from acid in the face, you'd give a few thousand of girls (and children, and males, and everyone) hot nuclear death and a few more thousands of cancers? Oh, right, and using nukes is so much better than caning?
Heh.
I say not to ethnically cleanse them but to MOST CERTAINLY ethnically cleanse their culture, by whatever it takes. Hey, it's just my nature, my well learned reaction to bullies over the years. You turn around and beat them ferociously about the head when they screw with you. Always worked for me! They went and picked on someone else. I feel guilty about passing them on so now I want to make amends
Ah, a tough guy. So basically this has nothing to do with the Taliban as such, this is about your penis size and looking tough.
Except you don't even have the balls to go look tough personally, you'd rather someone else dropped a nuke to make you look tough.
You know what? I'm starting to appreciate the actuall school bullies more. They at least had the balls to do it personally and deal with the consequences. You're just the same kind of bully, only want to do it by proxy. Well gee.
