From The Guardian...
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
Ian Traynor in Brussels
Tuesday January 22, 2008
The Guardian
The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists.
See if you can follow the logic here...
To prevent the first use of nuclear weapons by rabid warmongers, our rabid warmongers recommend the first use of nuclear weapons.
Why not save everyone a lot of trouble and just nuke ourselves?
Why are we even having this conversation? Why are supposedly civilised, liberal-minded Western people even contemplating the use of the most devestating and terrible weapons ever developed? After living through a forty-year nuclear standoff which literally threatened to destroy human life on Earth? Did I wake up on the wrong planet this morning? Am I taking crazy pills?
There's no excuse for this. Anyone who contemplates using nuclear weapons is a monster. If we as a society can't draw the line at that, then the West truly does deserve to fall; we'll have lost the last torture-stained shreds of our collective soul.
Posted by aloysius at January 22, 2008 07:59 PM |