[Flipside]

Thing is, nukes don't carry the weight they used to, back at the end of WW2, Japan knew that no force on Earth could stand up to the H-Bomb, that no allies could help them, nowadays, Afghanistan is surrounded by semi to fully sympathic countries who also have nukes, glassing Afghanistan would have nothing even close to the stopping power that nuking Japan did.

[Herra Tohtori]

Sometimes... you've got to roll a hard six.

Yeah. However, its not enough to survive... One has to be worthy of survival.

[StarSlayer]

Thing is, nukes don't carry the weight they used to, back at the end of WW2, Japan knew that no force on Earth could stand up to the H-Bomb, that no allies could help them, nowadays, Afghanistan is surrounded by semi to fully sympathic countries who also have nukes, glassing Afghanistan would have nothing even close to the stopping power that nuking Japan did.

   The idea that Pakistan or Iran might be irritated that you glassed Afghanistan shouldn't be the most prominent reason for not doing it.  Nuking Afghanistan to stop Al Queda/Taliban is like nuking LA to eliminate Crips.  I mean sure thats where they live, but the majority of people your killing aren't even involved.  Most of these people have basically been subsistence farming for generations, born and lived their entire lives in a single village.  They probably haven't even heard of the United States until our Chinooks and Apaches started rattling through their valleys.

[Flipside]

I know, I was just touching on the Military side of matters, not the humanitarian one, from a human point of view, it's terminal overkill anyway, but from a political point of view it is something that is likely to backfire horrendously.

[SpardaSon21]

Can't we just nuke the tops off some of the Hindu Kush mountains to remove some of the Taliban hiding places?

If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.

[StarSlayer]

Can't we just nuke the tops off some of the Hindu Kush mountains to remove some of the Taliban hiding places?

If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.

All the infrastructure is in Pakistan anyway, your tax dollars at work back in the eighties. 

[Turambar]

Can't we just nuke the tops off some of the Hindu Kush mountains to remove some of the Taliban hiding places?

If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.

There's only one way to fight religion:  Education.  The sooner Afghanistan stops being a ****-hole, the sooner the problem will go away.

[Kosh]

Can't we just nuke the tops off some of the Hindu Kush mountains to remove some of the Taliban hiding places?

If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.

Then as soon as we do that, a few pakistani nuclear warheads might "accidently" disappear, only to rediscovered, but not before turning some american cities into mushroom clouds.

[redsniper]

For the record, I don't support nuking Afghanistan or pretty much anyone for that matter. I just wanted to make some BSG references.