William Arkin has become so increasingly and reflexively shrill and anti-Bush in recent months that I think the only reason Chris Matthews invites hiom on Hardball is to make himself look calm and knowledgeable by comparison.
At an rate, if I hear one more thing about this ‘nuclear use doctrine’ or whatever the hell it is called that was ‘leaked’ to the LA Times last week, I am gonna explode. Note to paranoid newscasters and alarmist editors. The U.S. has people that work in the Pentagon. One of their jobs is WAR-GAMING. When you WAR-GAME you come up with new ideas that might lead to new doctrine or could become CONTINGENCY plans. You try to GAME out new scenarios, likely scenarios, and then you try to determine UNLIKELY scenarios. Just because something appears on a piece of paper somewhere with a Pentagon address does not mean we are going to nuke the next Palestinian to attack Israel or the next Russian who slaps an import tariff on Smirnoff.
BTW- you fruity bastards at the LA Times can stoip digging your fallout shelter. If you think this is the first time the government has ever looked at utilizing nuclear weapons, you are as DUMB as you are NAIVE.
