Nuke Mecca

Nuke Mecca is a popular refrain among the far right,What Happens if Someone Nukes the Black Cube? by Baron Bodissey (May 8, 2016) Gates of Vienna.Bomb Mecca off the face of the earth. Exclusive: Burt Prelutsky says Islamists 'have been asking for it for over 1,400 years' by Burt Prelutsky (11/19/2015 at 7:55 PM) WND (archived from February 23, 2024).Pamela Geller Watch #5: Israel Should Nuke Tehran, Mecca and Medina by Mooneye (February 24, 2010) Loonwatch (archived from February 29, 2012).Pentagon condemns 'war on Islam' US training class (11 May 2012) BBC.Consequences of Nuking Mecca by Vernon Richards. FaithFreedom.org (archived from February 19, 2015). who seem to think that a "moral equation" resulting in justice and peace could look something like this: 6,852 American armed forces personnel lost in the global war on terror + 2,996 lives lost from 9/11 = murdering the 2,000,000 civilians who call Mecca home and turning a cultural megalopolis into a radioactive crater.How Many Americans Died US Wars by Megan Crigger & Laura Santhanam (Updated on May 27, 2019 12:31 PM EDT; Published on May 24, 2015 4:19 PM EDT) PBS
It certainly seems a surefire plan to defend America (and not the most insane act of genocide in history or something that would galvanize Muslims to demolish The Vatican/Washington D.C. or anything like that)!
==Origins==
The idea is briefly mentioned as a detail of the backstory in the 1985 Nebula award winning science fiction classic Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. A similarly inflammatory concept is the nuclear bombing of The Vatican explored in Zoltan Istvan's Book review: The Transhumanist Wager by Giulio Prisco (May 15, 2013) The Kurzweil Library. while War in 2020 by Ralph Peters has the atomic bombing of Israel.War in 2020 by Ralph Peters (1991) Atria Books. .
Though it's not Mecca, in 2009 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also accused Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to attack the Gaza Strip with a nuclear weapon, which Lieberman's media adviser called nonsense.'Lieberman threatened to nuke Gaza' (October 26, 2009 07:22) The Jerusalem Post. In 2024 during the war between Israel and Hamas, Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu,China, Iran, Arab nations condemn Israeli minister’s statement about dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza by Edith M. Lederer (Updated 12:10 AM PDT, November 14, 2023) AP.Michigan Congressman and Former Pastor Appears to Suggest Nuking Gaza by Jack McCordick (March 31, 2024) Vanity Fair. Baptist pastor/US Republican Congressman Tim Walberg,Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza (31 Mar 2024) Al Jazeera. and Senator Lindsey Graham suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip.Lindsey Graham suggests Israel should nuke Gaza and claims Hiroshima bomb was ‘the right thing’: South Carolina Republican told Israel: ‘Do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state. Whatever you have to do’ by James Liddell (May 15, 2024) The Independent.
===Republican use===
Talk show host Pat Campbell for WFLA-AM in Orlando, Florida asked the Colorado Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo how the country should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities with nuclear weapons; he responded, "Well, what if you said something like — if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites." "You're talking about bombing Mecca," Campbell said. "Yeah," Tancredo responded. The Congressman later said he was "just throwing out some ideas" and that an "ultimate threat" might have to be met with an "ultimate response." "What is near and dear to them? They're willing to sacrifice everything in this world for the next one. What is the pressure point that would deter them from their murderous impulses?" the representative asked, his spokesman stressing he was only speaking hypothetically.Tancredo: If They Nuke Us, Bomb Mecca (July 18, 2005) Associated Press via Fox News (archived from March 7, 2018).
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demanded that Tancredo apologize to Muslims.CO Muslims Seek Mtg with Tancredo Over ‘Bomb Mecca’ Remark (July 18, 2005) Council on American-Islamic Relations.
==How come they didn't nuke Korea or Vietnam?==
At a press conference on 30 November 1950, President Harry Truman was asked about the use of nuclear weapons:The President's News Conference (November 30, 1950) Hrry S. Truman Library and Museum, National Archived.
The implication was that the authority to use atomic weapons now rested in the hands of General Douglas MacArthur.Policy and Direction: The First Year by James F. Schnabel (1972) Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army. .Truman & MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown by Michael D. Pearlman (2008) Indiana University Press. . Truman's White House issued a clarification, noting that "only the President can authorize the use of the atom bomb, and no such authorization has been given", yet the comment still caused a domestic and international stir. Truman had touched upon one of the most sensitive issues in civilian-military relations in the post-World War II period: civilian control of nuclear weapons, which was enshrined in the 
On 9 December 1950, MacArthur requested field commander's discretion to employ nuclear weapons; he testified that such an employment would only be used to prevent an ultimate fallback, not to recover the situation in Korea.MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub (2000) Free Press. . On 24 December 1950, MacArthur submitted a list of "retardation targets" in Korea, and other parts of China, for which 34 atomic bombs would be required, though other sources say only 26.Strategic Terror: The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment by Beau Grosscup (2013) Zed Books. .American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 by Conrad C. Crane (2000) University Press of Kansas. .The Origins of the Korean War Volume 2: The Roaring of the Cataract 1947-1950 by Bruce Cumings (1990) Princeton University Press. . According to Major General MacArthur considered a proposal by Louis Johnson to use radioactive wastes to seal off North Korea, but never submitted this to the Joint Chiefs.The Years of MacArthur: Triumph and Disaster, 1945-1964 by D. Clayton James (1985) Houghton Mifflin. . In January 1951, MacArthur refused to entertain proposals for the forward deployment of nuclear weapons."Atomic Diplomacy during the Korean War" by Roger Dingman (1988-1989) International Security 13(3):50-91. doi:10.2307/2538736. An increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide that creates the greenhouse effect had only recently been quantified by so the idea that climate change could disrupt the distribution of an uncontained nuclear wasteland through heavy rains contaminating the groundwater wasn't considered a foreseeable hazard for South Korea within the next six decades.25 years on at America's most contaminated nuclear waste site (11 June 2014) BBC.
There has been debate whether MacArthur advocated the employment of nuclear weapons, including over whether his submission to the Joint Chiefs of Staff was tantamount to a recommendation.Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America's East Asian Policy by Russell Buhite (2008) Rowman & Littlefield. .Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy by Todd S. Sechser & Matthew Fuhrmann (2017) Cambridge University Press. . In his testimony before the Senate Inquiry, he stated that he had not recommended their use.Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations, 15 May 1951—Military Situation in the Far East, hearings, 82d Congress, 1st session, part 1, p. 77 (1951). In 1960, MacArthur challenged a statement by Truman that he had wanted to use nuclear weapons, saying that "atomic bombing in the Korean War was never discussed either by my headquarters or in any communication to or from Washington"; Truman, admitting that he did not have documentation of any such claim, said that he was merely providing his personal opinion."A-Bomb Blow at M'Arthur Only 'Opinion'" (24 December 1960) Chicago Tribune. In an interview with and on 25 January 1954, posthumously published in 1964, MacArthur said,Texts of Accounts by Lucas and Considine on Interviews With MacArthur in 1954 (April 9, 1964) The New York Times (archived from September 28, 2015).
In 1985, Richard Nixon recalled discussing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with MacArthur:The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth by Gar Alperovitz (1995) Knopf. .
==See also==
*Alt-right glossary#Remove kebab
*Henry Kissinger#Madman Theory
*Nuclear war
==References==
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