“Shakespeare said it right: much ado about nothing.”

“Well, the Gazans are being massacred and…”

“Right, but there is a new paradigm in place: aerial bombardment is not enough to gain territory. You need boots on the ground.”

“You know you could be right. American superior airpower and zero airpower of the Taliban and you know the result.”

“But you have to acknowledge that a nuclear bomb is a deterrent to conflict….”

“We have it and the Taliban don’t and where is the deterrent?”

“OK, so let me qualify it: the nuclear bomb works with countries but not with insurgency, which perhaps explains why bombardment on........

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