Sunday, September 11, 2005
Don't Tread on Me
In what he calls a revised policy, Walter Pincus at the Washington Post talks about un-classified documents regarding our policy concerning the use of our many nuclear weapons. It turns out that, if the draft documents are approved, local commanders will be able to call in a nuclear strike (with the President's approval, of course) "to pre-empt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction [or] to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons."
Pincus has been covering nuclear weapons policy forever; what's this noise about a revised policy? We are the only nations to have used nuclear weapons in war (and to good effect--by quickly ending the war, thus making invasion of Japan unnecessary, we saved perhaps millions of lives). We have never forsworn first use. Perhaps he is talking about revisions concerning the targets which revisions take into account the particular nature of the war we are now fighting against Islamofascism and the particular targets that would be available for nuking.
I hope the jihadists are reading the Washington Post, although, with their particular penchant for suicide in battle (even against non-combatants--I guess, usually against such civilians) maybe it won't matter. I, for one, have no doubt that, given the right circumstances, we will again use nukes to take and, at the same time, save lives.
Pincus has been covering nuclear weapons policy forever; what's this noise about a revised policy? We are the only nations to have used nuclear weapons in war (and to good effect--by quickly ending the war, thus making invasion of Japan unnecessary, we saved perhaps millions of lives). We have never forsworn first use. Perhaps he is talking about revisions concerning the targets which revisions take into account the particular nature of the war we are now fighting against Islamofascism and the particular targets that would be available for nuking.
I hope the jihadists are reading the Washington Post, although, with their particular penchant for suicide in battle (even against non-combatants--I guess, usually against such civilians) maybe it won't matter. I, for one, have no doubt that, given the right circumstances, we will again use nukes to take and, at the same time, save lives.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:43 AM 
