Quote Originally Posted by Tarlam!
Until the entire world is prepared to dismantle nuclear weapons, why, exactly, should countries forfeit their right to strive for military equaility?
Because if they don't, we may have to kill them in the interest of global stability.

The U.S. has tried the live and let live approach to world politics, and everybody knows how well that worked. You live in the country that gave birth to Hitler and the Third Reich. The country you live in erected factories for the explicit purpose of applying process improvement principals to their goal of exterminating an entire race of people. The country you live methodically set about blitzkrieging virtually defenseless countries to pursue their goal of global domination. So pardon me if I yawn at your moral outrage over our use of a new technology to end WWII.

As long as there are countries that allow crackpots and madmen to rise to power, there will be the need for a benevolent Superpower. It's a crappy job, because you'll never make all the people happy all of the time.

But the bottom line is this:

Were not all speaking German.