Last night, I found myself watching The Mouse that Roared (1959) with Peter Sellers. Or to be precise, as Thomson and Thompson might say, I found myself watching Peter Sellers in The Mouse that Roared. Peter Sellers was definitely not watching the movie with me. But I digress.
Anyway, in this movie, a tiny country that usually escapes notice declares war on the US and acquires the dreaded Q-bomb (in today’s terms, a Weapon of Mass Destruction massively more powerful than a nuclear warhead). In a poignant moment, the US military leaders consider their options and find themselves “stuck”: it would be completely immoral for a country the size of the United States to attack a tiny country like the Duchy of Fenwick. Instead, they resort to diplomacy.
Well it looks like the US military has long since overcome that pesky morality thing.