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>which is airplanes dropping munitions from great heights onto buildings with people in them. I know that you didn't mean for your comment to be taken literall

>which is airplanes dropping munitions from great heights onto buildings with people in them. I know that you didn't mean for your comment to be taken literally but there is literally zero chance of enemy airplanes invading US skies and dropping munitions from great heights onto buildings with people in them. It is a silly thing to say and it does nothing to justify the current situation vis a vis the NSA et al. Try not to hyperventilate.

tptacek 12y ago
No, I mean literally: if Stuxnet really did target the Iranian nuclear project and really did set Iran back by a year or so, then Stuxnet forestalled an aerial bombardment of Iran by a year or so. It's an ugly situation, since Iran's geopolitical strategy involves gaining concessions through a game of chicken with the US counter-proliferation regime. At some point, unless it's resolved in a way that ends the Iranian nuclear arms program, it is going to end in explosions, and scores of lost lives. This is a descriptive observation, not a normative one. It is also true that if Iran somehow arranged for explosions at US nuclear facilities, the USG's response would be world- historically horrific. Any reasonable observer knows this to be a fact, so we can acknowledge it without getting into philosophy and move on.
LLWM 12y ago
Of course there isn't. The US would be the attacker in this scenario. And we most certainly still do bomb people with aircraft.