WMD Threat Could Spark American Nuclear Strike
A document, still in draft form at this point, within the Pentagon has been revised to allow the President to order a pre-emptive nuclear strike against another state or terror groups. This shifts things from 'mututal assured destruction', to 'we will kill you dead just for thinking it'.
Of course, I shouldn't really be surprised. We are, after all, the only nuclear power ever to use a bomb on another population. But given such things as the lack of WMDs in Iraq, faulty intelligence, political appointments that screw up even something as vital as disaster relief...well, I don't have a lot of faith in my government at the moment, and even less so with this particular Administration. It's getting harder to view ourselves as the good guys (which, really, was a matter of spin anyway, I suppose, since everyone sees themselves as the good guys, even when they're doing horrible things) with stuff like this happening.
Let's see if it is approved in its current form. I suspect it will drum up quite a bit of controversy after being outed, so to speak, by the Washington Post yesterday. Still, I wonder what this will do to the Doomsday Clock?
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