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From: LindyBill	3/26/2010 12:39:04 PM
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As much as Democrat Barnett loves Obama's domestic policy, he "made his bones" in his PHD program on Russian FP. And what Obama is doing terrifies him. New White House policy could make nuke use more likely By Thomas P.M. Barnett ARTICLE: White House Is Rethinking Nuclear Policy, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER, New York Times, February 28, 2010Link Lots of dangerous ideas in this review, like expanding the ability to go up-tempo in conventional war without triggering the nuclear threshold. I have no idea why we'd want to expand non-nuclear options for high-end warfare. To encourage the illusion that "escalation dominance" is alive and well? The assumptions here outweigh the assurance. If I'm advising Obama on looking strong, I tell him to avoid these bad ideas in a world that is getting forced to live with nuclear regimes in Pyongyang and Tehran. He strikes me as definitely on the course to making the use of nukes more likely--not less.

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