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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by the_af on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @03:35PM (#30702976)
Some in the US even argued for using nuclear weapons on Vietnam, out of frustration with the lack of progress with conventional war.

Imagine how that would have gone -- dropping nukes on the Vietnamese in order to "save" them from Communism.

Thankfully saner minds prevailed.

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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by IntrepidWorm on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:34PM (#30705007)
Yup. Henry Kissinger was a big part of that nonsense, along with a whole bunch of equally sinister stuff. The cluster bombings of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Korea were in many ways directly the result of his machinations.
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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by earleybird on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:21PM (#30718443)
That reminds me . . . I need to watch Dr. Strangelove again.
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