Reply #: Afghanistan is the best staging ground for the real fight in Pakistan.

[Wizard777]

Little Boy killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima. Fat Man killed 80,000 in Nagasaki. That was just the deaths from the initial blast. Then you have collateral deaths from radiation sickness and cancers. Today's nukes make Little Boy and Fat Man look like fire crackers. You would not want to live in a world with a nuclear capable Al Qaida. They will not use them in a conventional way. They will use them in a holy shit that's just freakin' insane kind of way. We've already seen what they can do in the abstract with airplanes. I don't want to see what they can do with a nuclear bomb. What if they combine the two? Send a nuke up in a plane to detonate it as close to the stratosphere as they can get. Wipe out all the power grids and computers. Now your house is little better than their cave. One day without all your electric luxuries and you will want Obama's head on a silver platter for taking your advice and pulling out of Afghanistan. These are bad men and they aren't just going to go away because we do. I would rather fuel the insurgency with a constant barrage than fuel their international network by pulling out. If we don't take the fight to them. They will bring the fight to us.