I don't remember nuclear weapons being used in any of those countries. In fact, in my experience in Afghanistan, we were desperate not to kill merkins. The Taliban were the ones who wanted us killing civilians.
The quote was “you can’t bomb yourself to peace”.
The rebuttal was, it worked in Japan.
Well, in Iraq for example, they bombed the f**k out of that country to overthrow the leader. While that regime fell, the ensuing power vacuum led to insurgency, civil war, and the rise of ISIS.
Nuclear weapons ? If they used nuclear weapons on Iraq, because they had WMDs, (oops), would that have changed anything? Well it was really about oil and the west were pissed that Saddam nationalised oil production - he blocked foreign investors like Exxon, Shell etc from being able to drill for it themselves. From the US POV, they didn’t want Iraq to have
their hand on the tap.
What a cluster f**k and our guy still lies to this very time about it.
No, nuclear weapons would not have prevented ISIS, and imagine using that shit on a false premise that THEY had WMDs. Eek how embarrassment.
Just on a tangent, I think the world are very lucky that the only times that nukes have been used in anger is against the Japanese. Their population holds no grudges. I don’t think the arab nations would be so forgiving.
So you tell me, under what circumstances ARE nuclear weapons appropriate ? When in history should they have been used to bring peace ?