On upgrading technology, i dont necessarially mean making them more powerful. THe idea of high number of bombs built decades sitting ago about scares me, i think the general technology needs to be uprgraded, and old bombs need to be decommitioned.
On WWIII, i think it is ludacrous to assume that all of man kind would be distroyed. Large cities, military installations, capital, ect. yes, the middle of no where no. The enviroment would certainly suffer if everyone went balls out and distroyed everyone else there would still be enough people and nature around to kick the world back into motion.
On liberal vs. conservative.
I do belive that there is a strong presence in the media that could be called liberal. The problem i see with our discussion is that the word liberal now careers a much different meaning than it did some 15 or so years ago. Both terms have becomes the other parties dirty little words for the other as opposed to there traditional meanings. There are much different conotations now to both words.
Sudan is an interesting subject, the question i would pose to all here is what would happen if the US and a coalition did something about it? By and large Iraq 2 1/2 years ago is a comperable place to modern Sudan, but no one seems to care that peoples lives are better there, due to political overtones. So lets say that G. Bush decides to pull something like CLinton TRIED to do in samalia and pulls it off, unlike clinton did. How would the world react?
Edit: Some links
Conservatism
Liberalism