horse of george

"... well, you see, not to be glib of course, but I was reading a story about Somalia, about what a god awful place it is, possibly beyond hope, and how dangerous that hopelessness could potentially be, engendering as it does a most virulent strain of extremism... and I was just thinking, ya know, from a cost/benefit point of view... wondering, would it really be all that wrong just to drop a nuke on the place?... I mean once you sort of have time to get used to the wholesale carnage involved... would it really be that wrong a thing to do? And then of course I started thinking... ya know, wondering about applying a similar cost/benefit analysis to various scenarios... I started thinking 'Hell, there's probably a few places in the world that if ya gave 'em a good nuking it'd be hard to argue against the benefits that could accrue'... once you got past the carnage of course..."