"Sorry to get you riled up, but I would prefer a politician who was going to try to avoid war where possible. I think pursuing war is dumb."


Then why do you support a candidate whose policies INCREASE the likelyhood, both of war in general, and nuclear war specifically?


The easiest way to start a nuclear war is to be PERCEIVED ( regardless of what one might actually do) as being unwilling to respond to a WMD attack- THAT is the entire basis of MAD- That we WILL destroy the world if anyone uses WMD on us or our allies.

The PERCEPTION that we will not is the surest way to get such a war started, by miscalculation of what our reaction will be. Please read how WW I started, and what Hitler would have done if he had been forced to back down in Czechoslovakia.