Ian Traynor: Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
Ref: The Guardian, January 22, 2008
“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.”
Proteus: FORTY SECOND BOYD AND THE BIG PICTURE
Ref: ejectejecteject.com, January 1, 2008
“Think about that for a second! Inside his decision loop. To Red, Blue appears psychic, magical, demonic: able to read his mind, anticipate his every move. Blue owns the initiative, and he will never give it back. The more this goes on the more rattled, confused and demoralized Red becomes. This slows his ability to orient, it clouds his decisions with fear, it paralyzes his actions with second-guessing and ultimately reduces Red from being a deadly man in a deadly machine to a floating tumbleweed with no SA: out of airspeed, out of altitude and out of ideas.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Wages of Appeasement
Ref: Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2004
“Our failure was never due to a lack of the necessary wealth or military resources, but rather to a deeply ingrained assumption that we should not retaliate–a hesitancy al Qaeda perceives and plays upon.”
Column One: The triumph of legal defeatism
“And as the two explained, in their decisions, these lawyers were informed not by the goal of winning the war, but by their interpretation of international law.”
Thomas Sowell: Pacifists vs Peace
Ref: Real Clear Politics, July 21, 2006
” There was a time when it would have been suicidal to threaten, much less attack, a nation with much stronger military power because one of the dangers to the attacker would be the prospect of being annihilated.”
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