09-07-2017, 09:34 PM
(09-07-2017, 02:14 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > You seriously think France or Italy would have supported the
> rebellion against Qadafi after he started nuking their cities? I
> would bet rather heavily that they would not even have tried in
> the first place, and if they were crazy enough to do it, they
> would have quit immediately after Qadafi nuked Marseille and
> Naples and said "Paris and Rome are next".
Wow! You and I really have different world views. If Gaddafi had
nuked Marseille or Naples, that would have been a regeneracy event
triggering a full-scale counterattack on Libya, leveling Tripoli.
Perhaps, though Italy has no nuclear weapons. I think France would also have regretted the loss of Paris for a long time, but perhaps that's what crisis wars are like.
Still, would they have started the conventional war over refugees and oil knowing that was a reasonably likely outcome? Do you think nuclear weapons have no deterrent effect?