Several friends and colleagues have urged me to be a little more controversial in terms of what I write. Fewer technology-based articles and more historical-economic based ones. So without further ado, en garde!
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5/20/2003
Ms. Allen’s Foreign Policy Musings
Senate Scraps Low-Yield Nuke Weapons Ban
I suppose I should just create a “Nuclear Watch” blog, as I’ve reported various clandestine events surrounding The Bomb of late.
I was surprised to see the following individual make these remarks:
“This issue is as clear as any issue ever gets. You’re either for nuclear war or you’re not. Either you want to make it easier to start using nuclear weapons or you don’t,” said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.“Is half a Hiroshima OK? Is a quarter Hiroshima OK? Is a little mushroom cloud OK? That’s absurd. The issue is too important. If we build it, we’ll use it,” he said.
Gotta nuke the bad guys before the bad guys nuke you. This reminds me of the Looney Tunes character known as Marvin the Martian. He was an extraterrestrial villain of sorts that lived on Planet X (Pluto, or a KBO) and whom Daffy Duck always ran into. Time and time again, the two knuckleheads would end up pointing, aiming and firing bigger and bigger guns — eventually annihilating landmasses and planets altogether (and a solar system or two if I recall correctly).
Leave it to a cartoon to depict the absurd troglodyte and jingoistic machinations that are continually reincarnated by the Beltway. Ahh, but I forget, these are precision guided munitions that only get The Bad Guys™…