| What he said was that all options would be considered in responding with overwhelming force to a WMD attack on the United States, its overseas troops, or its allies, and that nuclear weapons would not be ruled out. I take this as being akin to our refusal to rule out first use of nukes in the European theater in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion. In other words, it is not a promise to blow up Baghdad, it is a threat, leaving one guessing what we would do, and what the tripwire of escalation would be. Remember, by the way, that it is not necessary to use a big, dirty "city killer" nuke, we have small nukes that would take out an army battalion, intermediate nukes that would take out 50k to 200k, and so forth, up to "city killers". Thus, the threat to use "overwhelming force" may amount to no more than to take out most of the enemies army in one blast, instead of leaving them opportunities to retreat or surrender. Thus, overall, I approve of the policy....... |
