By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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This is mind-boggling and probably insures that we have lost any advantage we might have had under the so-called-real-life nuclear option as opposed to the one our Congress has played with in recent political manipulations.  I don’t intend to try a understanding of the POTUS thinking on this issue, but essentially, it looks as though we have no nuclear option except to say, “Nuclear option?”  ”We no have longer have one.”

I believe there are surprises in the President’s planned nuclear policy that even those that despise all things nuclear, whether power or weapons, would argue with.  Here’s a quote from a New York Times (NYT) piece providing some information on the POTUS thoughts:

It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the cold war. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.

Read the above paragraph very slowly and then try to reason out how reasonable such policies could possibly be.

Anyway, you can read the entire NYT article for yourself … right here. Then, I hope you’ll come back and comment whether you agree with my thoughts or your President’s proposed policy.

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