>>120250769Fuck US civilians, he ordered a strike on US soil. A country can excuse a few thousand dead civilians- even the US. What the US CAN'T have is the damage to it's prestige by accidentally nuking itself- America would lose tons of face, and would be lucky to keep NATO (NATO would ask themselves if the US is willing to nuke itself on the word of one crazy fed, it's not hard to imagine what might convince them to nuke one of them).
If they are unable to cover-up the attempted nuclear strike (which they might or might not), then his trial would need to be extremely public so that the US can demonstrate that it can be trusted with nukes.
Same for the guys who launched the nukes as well on the word of one crazed fed, not waiting for confirmation from the president or a general or anything like that. I mean- even if the Iron Giant decided to destroy all humans, it could only be in one place at one time, and was attacking a small town of little strategic import- military high-command could have easily sat back for a few days to get a read on the situation and consider their options.
